"It's pretty surreal to walk between two major pieces of Earth's crust that are drifting in different directions," Brooke ...

The plates fit together like jigsaw puzzle pieces far beneath our feet. Tectonic plates move - usually very slowly - and this broke Pangaea up into separate parts, eventually creating the ...

These continents are still on the move today. Exactly what drives plate tectonics is not known. One theory is that convection within the Earth's mantle pushes the plates, in much the same way that ...

The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries: convergent, where plates move into one another; divergent, where plates move apart; and transform, where plates move sideways ...

In fact, it is suggested that as the Earth’s tectonic plates move, causing continents to shift ... The post The Earth’s Tectonic Plates May One Day Cause The Mediterranean Sea To Completely ...

Scientists uncover hidden land under Iceland, questioning our understanding of Earth's continents and tectonic plates.

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But do other planets in the solar system have them too?

The presence of oceans, continents and plate tectonics ... As the plates move, they create new landforms, which generate weather systems and new climates. Weathering causes nutrients to reach ...

"Instead of being broken up into these separate plates that move around with that ... it's hard to know precisely what causes a planet to develop plate tectonics, Foley said.