At the same time, the northward motion of the Indian plate accelerated, more than doubling to a blistering (again, geologically speaking) 18 cm/yr. While this was going on, the velocity of the ...

Far beneath the ocean's surface, where mountain belts rise and ancient oceanic crust lies hidden, a long-lost tectonic plate ...

While today’s fastest plate motion is around 12 cm (4.7 inches) per year, the Pilbara Craton moved as much as 64 centimeters (25 inches) per year. A rare remnant of early Earth.

Plate tectonics is the theory that Earth’s outer shell is divided into several plates that glide over Earth's mantle. ... It’s the slip-sliding motion of plate boundaries that triggers many ...

“The well-defined changes in plate motion that occur in the Labrador Sea and Baffin Bay, which have relatively limited external complications affecting them, make this area an ideal natural ...

Plate boundaries with fast motions, such as the ones along the Pacific rim, accumulate elastic energy rapidly and have the potential for frequent large-magnitude earthquakes.