The tiny Juan de Fuca plate is largely responsible for the volcanoes that dot the Pacific Northwest of the United States ... creates three types of tectonic boundaries: convergent, where plates ...

Scotese studies how plate tectonics and a warming climate will change Earth's appearance in the future, and he has made multiple animated maps based from his research. For more animations from ...

In regions of convergence, one plate can sink under another in a subduction zone, or two colliding plates can form a mountain belt. At divergent boundaries, plates move away from each other and ...

Plates can also move past each other, like at the San Andreas Fault in the USA, which forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the ... so the map of the world will continue ...