1. Hand each student a plate boundary map and a slip of paper with a scientific specialty (seismology, geochronology, volcanology, or geography), and a plate name (Pacific Plate, North American ...

Based on a series of models considering how the continents were assembled over time, researchers created an updated map of Earth's tectonic plates. Newsletters Games Share a News Tip Featured ...

The National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released an animation last year that displays every recorded earthquake between January 1, 2001, and December 31, 2015.

Divergent Boundary Also known as spreading boundary, a divergent boundary occurs where two plates move apart, allowing magma, or molten rock, to rise from the Earth's interior to fill in the gap.

These convergent boundaries also occur where a plate of ocean dives, in a process called subduction, under a landmass. As the overlying plate lifts up, it also forms mountain ranges.

The theory of plate tectonics was developed from the 1950s to the 1970s. It is the modern update to continental drift, an idea first proposed by scientist Alfred Wegener in 1912, who that Earth ...

Convergent: Where plates smash together, resulting in deformation or destruction of one or more plate edges. When one plate sinks below another, forcing it back down to Meltytown, it’s called ...

When searching a location on the map, the website’s 3D rotatable globe will point out where on Earth that area was located million of years ago. The map will even show users what dinosaurs used ...