Earth’s surface is constantly shifting, shaped by the slow but powerful movement of tectonic plates. While some plates have ...

For millions of years, Earth’s shifting plates have shaped continents, formed oceans, and built towering mountain ranges. But ...

Their research revealed that in the present day, deep below the Earth’s surface, the Neotethys oceanic plate – the ocean floor that used to be between the Arabian and Eurasian continents – is breaking ...

Not all mountains in the Yellowstone region are volcanic in origin. The Wind River Range, southeast of Yellowstone National ...

The Pontus oceanic plate that was reconstructed by Suzanna van de Lagemaat: its location in the paleo-Pacific ocean 120 million years ago, and its present relicts. An earlier study showed that a ...

These plates can be oceanic, meaning they're found mainly under the ocean, or continental, and mainly found under land. And they are moved around, constantly fuelled by energy from the very hot ...

The boundary where the two plates meet is called a convergent boundary. Deep trenches appear at these boundaries, caused by the oceanic plate bending downward into the Earth. Deep below the Earth ...

A Nankai Trough megaquake is expected to strike along the boundary between a continental plate and an oceanic plate. But the Jan. 22 temblor occurred inside the oceanic plate, which lies at a ...