There are three different types of plate boundary, depending on how the plates are moving relative to one another. A boundary where the plates slide past one another without moving towards or away ...

There are two different types of crust : continental crust: which carries land, and oceanic crust, which carries water. Continental plates are usually quite thick (between 35 to 70 km) compared to ...

A new view on plate tectonics Transform faults play active role in shaping ocean floors Date: March 17, 2021 Source: Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR) Summary: Along submarine ...

And while we don’t know exactly how pre-plate-tectonics geodynamics might have worked, we do know crust-forming processes of some kind have been happening for almost as long as Earth has existed ...

A team of geoscientists from the University of Toronto is shedding new light on the century-old model of plate tectonics, which suggests the plates covering the ocean floors are rigid as they move ...

Given that all of the Hawaiian Islands were created by volcanic activity, it is somewhat surprising that only one of the islands possesses any active volcanoes. Why did the volcanoes that built ...

Caught in the middle: Lombok and Bali are exposed to earthquake and tsunamis risk due to a tectonic plate boundary to the south, but also a unique zone of activity that thrusts to the north.