Earth's lithosphere. Major and minor plates. arrows indicate direction of movement at plate boundaries. Vector illustration Tectonic Plates. Plate movement Plate movement. A cross section illustrating ...

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

Tectonic plates: can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em. Their movements cause some of the world's deadliest disasters, but, as you're about to see, the alternative is much, much worse.

There’s no geological artist quite like Earth’s plate tectonics. Thanks to this ongoing operation, we have mountains and oceans, terrifying earthquakes, incandescent volcanic eruptions, and ...

Nepal is highly earthquake-prone due to its location on a convergent boundary where the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates collide. This collision generates immense pressure and stress, which is ...

Explore the Pacific Ring of Fire, a seismically active region around the Pacific Ocean known for earthquakes and volcanoes.

Far beneath the ocean's surface, where mountain belts rise and ancient oceanic crust lies hidden, a long-lost tectonic plate ...

Scientists found a rhythmic mantle plume beneath Ethiopia is slowly tearing Africa apart - hinting at the birth of a new ...

Earthquakes, volcanic activity, mountain-building, and oceanic trench formation occur along plate boundaries. The lateral movement of the plates is typically at speeds of 50–100 mm annually.

An international team of scientists led by researchers from the University of Southampton has found evidence that rhythmic pulsations of molten rock originating from deep within Earth’s mantle are ...

By analyzing the boundary layer, a flow model was developed to represent the governing equations for movement, energy, and concentration, which are time-independent. These equations are expressed as a ...