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

Earth might not have seven continents after all. From an early age, most of us are taught to recognize seven continents: ...

The rift valley on the tectonic plate boundaries of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is clearly visible in ... [+] Iceland's Thingvellir National Park. Thingvellir went on to serve as the center of ...

Some of these undersea volcanoes become so large that they erupt out of the sea to form volcanic islands, e.g. Surtsey and the Westman Islands near Iceland. At a destructive boundary the 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 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 ...