where plates move apart; and transform, where plates move sideways in relation to each other. They move at a rate of one to two inches (three to five centimeters) per year. Where plates serving ...

AFRICA is splitting apart at double the speed than scientists first thought. A 35-mile-long crack in Ethiopia’s desert, first ...

Plate tectonics is the theory that Earth's outer ... The land masses continued to move apart, riding on separate plates, until they reached the positions they currently occupy.

The Great Rift in East Africa is one of the few spots on Earth being actively separated by tectonic activity and will ...

Plate tectonics are constantly changing the Earth ... Now, new research has found that the plates attached to the Americas are moving apart from those attached to Europe and Africa by an ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...

New reports have uncovered shocking details about the formation of the world’s sixth ocean!250 million years ago, the ...

Africa has been gradually splitting into two, slowly creating what will be a new ocean. While we first learned about this two ...

Sinking in one place leads to plates moving apart in other places. The movement of the plates and the activity inside the Earth, is called the theory of plate tectonics.

Here you can see what happens when tectonic plates move in opposite directions and cause an earthquake. This could then rip the ground apart and create fissures. Image caption, This shows what ...