and convergent boundaries, like the Himalayas, where two plates collide and recycle crust. However, recent findings like this ...

A team presents new details of an oceanic transform fault at the Gofar fault in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The work reveals unexpected brine deposits beneath the seafloor near the fault, which could ...

plate movements have been primarily organized into two distinct realms. In the Tethyan realm, enclosed by the continents of ...

Around 10,000 years ago, as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading in the Atlantic Ocean, may have temporarily sped up—with a little help ...

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 ...

Continental plates are usually quite thick (between 35 to 70 km) compared to the much thinner oceanic plates (between ... plate marginAn area where two tectonic plates are moving away from one ...

Also known as subduction boundary, a convergent boundary occurs where one plate slides under another as the two are pushed together. If there is land at the edge of one of these plates ...

convergent, where plates move into one another; divergent, where plates move apart; and transform, where plates move sideways in relation to each other. They move at a rate of one to two inches ...