Earthquakes. A short video for 11-14 year old pupils, exploring tectonic activity and earthquakes and featuring case studies ...

Plate tectonics also exposes rocks that react with ... Earth's history is a leap forward in the scientific grand challenge to ...

In this type of fault, the block of rock above the fault plane, known as the hanging wall, moves downward relative to the block below, called the footwall. Normal faults are typically found at ...

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...

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

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 ...