Scientists from the University of Göttingen have discovered that the Neotethys oceanic plate, once the ocean floor between the Arabian and Eurasian continents, is breaking apart horizontally.

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 ...

This zone marks the interface where the denser Pacific oceanic plate subducts beneath the less dense continental North American plate. As the subducted plate descends, the heat from the earth's ...

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 ...

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 ...

Continental plates are usually quite thick (between 35 to 70 km) compared to the much thinner oceanic plates (between 5 and 10 km). The oceanic rocks are usually made from basalt, while ...