An international research team has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the Zagros Mountains in the Kurdistan region of Iraq on how much the surface of the Earth has bent over the last ...

Earth's five oceans were formed by the constant movement of tectonic plates beneath us, and the same process is already ...

Understanding plate tectonics is key to grasping how the Earth’s geology works and how oceans and continents came to be.

Africa has been gradually splitting into two, slowly creating what will be a new ocean. While we first learned about this two ...

By Julian James The emergence of this new ocean is tied to the gradual movement of tectonic plates. The African, Arabian, and Somali plates are drifting apart, creating the East African Rift—a ...

This ocean is being created by the tectonic plates of Africa and Arabia being torn apart. All oceans are formed in this way, but this is one of the rare places where this process can be witnessed ...

This area of Turkey is prone to earthquakes as it lies at the intersection of three of the tectonic plates that make up the Earth’s crust: the Anatolian, Arabian and African plates. Arabia is ...