In this lesson, students learn about the different kinds of faults produced by different kinds of plate motions (see Lesson 2) and their relation to earthquakes. This activity is designed for one ...

Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments ...

Scientists believe that the motion of Earth's continents through plate tectonics has been largely steady over millions of years. New research, however, suggests this drift can speed up or slow down ...