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

By Julian James The emergence of this new ocean is tied to the gradual movement of tectonic plates. The African ... Somali Plate moves in the opposite direction, steadily widening the gap.

Six of the majors are named for the continents embedded within them, such as the North American, African ... the plates meet or divide. The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic ...

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?

Arabian and African plates. Arabia is moving northwards into Europe, causing the Anatolian plate (which Turkey sits on) to be pushed out westwards. The movement of the tectonic plates builds up ...