For millions of years, Earth’s moving plates have sculpted continents, carved oceans, and built massive mountain ranges. Yet ...

Earth’s crust is divided into huge, rigid tectonic plates that move across ... One of the most significant recent discoveries in plate tectonics is the confirmation of the Pontus plate, which ...

Scientists have uncovered one of the most exciting geological discoveries of the decade – the long-lost Pontus tectonic plate ...

In a development that could reshape our understanding of tectonic ... from near Japan all the way down to New Zealand. Till now, experts believed the middle of the Pacific Plate was stable and ...

The Gofar fault operates much like the San Andreas, in that two tectonic plates slide sideways ... the least well-studied of the three major plate boundaries, which include divergent boundaries ...

Each type reflects different forces acting within the ... Reverse faults are common at convergent plate boundaries, where tectonic plates collide. A specific type of reverse fault, called a ...

At the heart of this fault system lies the Main Marmara Fault (MMF), an underwater fault located just a few kilometers south ...

If we were to rewind the clock back 4.5 billion years, our planet would be massively different ... are located beneath the African Tectonic plate and the Pacific Tectonic plate, very deep in ...