Scuba diving at Iceland’s Silfra Fissure offers adventurers a chance to explore a submerged canyon between the Eurasian and ...

Mountains occur when tectonic plates are under compressional stress ... created millions of years ago when there was compression put on the North American plate. Now they’re strung across north of ...

Over two hundred fifty million years ago, India, Africa, Australia, and South America were all one continent ... The continents are carried by the Earth's tectonic plates like people on an escalator.

North American and Australian plates. Finally, by the mid-1960s a coherent theory of plate tectonics was accepted that accounted for different crustal rock types, orientations, continental shapes and ...

At a conservative plate margin two tectonic plates move side by side - this can either ... This fault line is found along the margin between the North American and Pacific plates, and stretches over ...

Earth surface is covered with rigid plates that move, crash into each other and dive into the planet's interior. But when did ...

Cratons are fascinating yet enigmatic geological formations. Known to be relatively stable portions of the Earth's ...

Scientists believe shifting tectonic plates are leading to the creation ... from the Red Sea north to Mozambique in the southeast. It is a complex system of rifts, faults, and volcanic activity ...

a fast-spreading ocean ridge where several tectonic plates meet off the coast of South America. The researchers were originally searching for the larvae of tube worms and other hydrothermal vent ...

Modern-style plate tectonics, marked by continental crust subduction and deep slab break-off, began in the late Neoproterozoic (approximately 600–700 million years ago). Under the modern ...

Tiny minerals are revolutionizing our understanding of geology. Easter Island consists of several extinct volcanoes. The ...