A groundbreaking study has unveiled a global compilation of tectonic plate boundaries and geological ... These are spatially accurate maps encompassing a uniform set of common geological ...

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 ...

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 ...

A hidden continent existed under Greenland's ice. Scientists found this lost continental fragment. It is called the Davis ...

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 ...