"The Earth's surface is covered with tectonic plates that move with respect to one another at centimeters per year," said geologist and study co-author Wouter Schellart of Monash University in ...

They move at a rate of one to two inches (three to five centimeters) per year. Convergent Boundaries. Where plates serving landmasses collide, the crust crumples and buckles into mountain ranges ...

The plates continue to move but only about the same speed as your fingernails grow. For more information about the Earth, check out the Science Trek website. You'll find it at Science Trek.org.

Tectonic plates can spread subduction like a contagion — jumping from one oceanic plate to another 'Pulsing, like a heartbeat': Rhythmic mantle plume rising beneath Ethiopia is creating a new ocean ...