Earth’s surface is constantly shifting, shaped by the slow but powerful movement of tectonic plates. While some plates have ...

Deep beneath Earth’s surface, researchers have discovered an ancient seafloor buried for millions of years. This unexpected ...

Plate boundaries are where the action is. A large fraction of all earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and mountain building occurs at plate boundaries. It is also where most of the people on Earth live.

The Pacific and Australian plates collide and ... and at strike-slip boundaries plates slide past each other. But none of these plate boundaries are static; instead, they change constantly and ...

These convergent boundaries also occur where a plate of ocean dives ... forming deep trenches like the Mariana Trench in the North Pacific Ocean, the deepest point on Earth.

Most constructive plate boundaries are found on ocean floors ... A good example of this is along the San Andreas Fault where the Pacific and the North American plates are sliding past each ...