The area featured in the video is the Almannagjá Gorge, a dramatic fissure created by the tectonic separation of the North American and Eurasian plates. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a massive ...

Scientists discover evidence of a submerged continent beneath Iceland, challenging Earth’s continental map. This tectonic ...

The Gondwana report, published in September, concluded that while it was generally understood that the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates separated approximately about 58 million years ...

If verified, it may indicate that the process of rifting, the separation of tectonic plates, is ongoing rather than a finished event from ages past. This finding upends the widely assumed view that ...

Greek officials are warning those on the popular tourist island destination of Santorini to stay alert in the coming days due ...

Tuesday morning’s quakes included two magnitude 5.1 earthquakes centered in the Aegean Sea north of Santorini ... convergence of the African plate and the Eurasian plate.

For decades, scientists believed that the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates had completely separated some 52 million years ago, creating the Atlantic Ocean and dividing the two continents.

According to National Geographic, the Ring of Fire marks the meeting points of numerous tectonic plates, including the Eurasian, North American, Juan de Fuca, Cocos, Caribbean, Nazca, Antarctic, ...

The Indian continent eventually broke free, journeying north across the vast swathe ... of one continent hitting another caused the plate beneath the Tethys Ocean, made of oceanic crust, to slide ...