The plates fit together like jigsaw puzzle pieces far beneath our feet. Tectonic plates move - usually very slowly - and this broke Pangaea up into separate parts, eventually creating the ...

Most geologic activity stems from the interplay where the plates meet or divide. The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries: convergent, where plates move into one ...

A recent NASA-funded study has unveiled groundbreaking details about Venus’ crust that challenge previous assumptions about ...

Scientists tracking tectonic activity along the East African Rift say the continent is slowly splitting apart, People ...

For millions of years, Earth’s moving plates have sculpted continents, carved oceans, and built massive mountain ranges. Yet ...

Experts say portions of the continent are pulling apart, creating the possibility that the Horn of Africa will become an ...

These hotspot plumes are stationary; as tectonic plates move over these stationary plumes, they create features like island chains or ridges, such as the Hawaiian Islands or the Ninetyeast Ridge.

Plate tectonics involves the movements of 15 major and 40 minor lithospheric plates. Note that the Indo-Australian Plate is currently separating into two, which explains why the Indian and ...

According to Andi Azhar Rusdin, the head of the BMKG Aceh Besar station, the tremor resulted from the deformation of rock within the tectonic plates. This deformation led to a fault mechanism where ...

As the last Ice Age came to an end nearly 10,000 years ago, something unexpected happened deep beneath Earth’s surface. Large ...