In the arid deserts of Ethiopia, a geological marvel has been quietly unfolding since 2005—a 35-mile-long fissure known as ...

Scientists uncover hidden land under Iceland, questioning our understanding of Earth's continents and tectonic plates.

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...

The Earth's hard outer layer (where we live ... The plates fit together like jigsaw puzzle pieces far beneath our feet. Tectonic plates move - usually very slowly - and this broke Pangaea up ...

This is how Earth's tectonic plates move. This results in formations of mountains, new ocean floor, and earthquakes. Introduce the term plate boundary. It is where the Earth's plates approach each ...

The Earth's plates jostle about in fits and starts ... creates three types of tectonic boundaries: convergent, where plates move into one another; divergent, where plates move apart; and transform ...

The convection currents move the plates. Where convection currents diverge near the Earth's crust, plates move apart. Where convection currents converge, plates move towards each other ...

New reports have uncovered shocking details about the formation of the world’s sixth ocean!250 million years ago, the ...

Where the Earth's tectonic plates meet ... At divergent boundaries, plates move away from each other and form mid-ocean ridges or major rift zones, and at strike-slip boundaries plates slide ...

Beneath the surface of the Earth lie several tectonic plates - large slabs of rock that move slowly over time - at a rate similar to the growth of fingernails. Some of these plates move towards ...