The Atlantic Ocean is currently getting wider at the mid-Atlantic Ridge, a divergent plate boundary that pushes the Old and New Worlds apart at a rate of around 2.5cm per year.

The heat flow at convergent plate boundaries is in turn influenced by the frictional energy at the interfaces of the continental plates. One can imagine the formation of mountains using a tablecloth.

In a paper published in Science China Earth Sciences, a team of Chinese scientists present the tectonic generalization of structures, processes and products at convergent plate margins during ...

Kamchatsky, a coastal city in Russia's Far East, at 11:24 pm Indian time on July 29. The earthquake area falls in the Kuril-Kamchatka subduction zone where the Pacific Plate dives beneath the North ...

It was on a normal fault, involving extension instead of compression. Zooming into a geologic map, the major plate boundary is no longer a straight line and many other adjacent fault systems appear.

The boundary where the two plates meet is called a convergent boundary. Deep trenches appear at these boundaries, caused by the oceanic plate bending downward into the Earth.

Porphyry copper deposits, an important subclass of Cordilleran-type deposits, exhibit a remarkable spatial relationship to present or former convergent plate boundary regimes. Certain copper-nickel ...

Volcanism on Earth is known to occur in three tectonic settings: divergent plate boundaries (such as mid-ocean ridges), convergent plate boundaries (such as island arcs), and hot spots. We report ...

News & Views Published: 07 September 2014 Planetary science Plate tectonics on ice Michelle M. Selvans Nature Geoscience 7, 695–696 (2014) Cite this article ...