Four types of plate tectonic activity are demonstrated in this feature. Keep an eye on the map to see where in the world the activity takes place. Also known as spreading boundary, a divergent ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Tectonic activity is shifting Australia northward, messing with GPS-run technology and pushing scientists to update the continent's coordinates. Produced by Noah ...

Whatever drives the movement, plate tectonic activity takes place at four types of boundaries: divergent boundaries, where new crust is formed; convergent boundaries, where crust is consumed ...

Europe is launching a spacecraft, EnVision, to radar-map and gather spectroscopic ... in Magellan images of the surface. So Venus's tectonic activity might resemble that on early Earth, during ...