Earthquakes. A short video for 11-14 year old pupils, exploring tectonic activity and earthquakes and featuring case studies ...

Join Isla and Connor as they explore features of tectonic movement along the Great Glen ... The Earth's hard outer layer (where we live) is called the crust. It is made up of large slabs called ...

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 ...

The tiny Juan de Fuca plate is largely responsible ... where the plates meet or divide. The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries: convergent, where plates move into ...

This movement may be why life exists ... a geoscientist at the University of Texas at Dallas, told Live Science. In prehistoric animals, plate tectonic activity has been tied to faster rates ...

Earthquakes are relatively common in Myanmar, where six strong quakes of 7.0 magnitude or more struck between 1930 and 1956 near the Sagaing Fault, which runs north to south through the centre of the ...

The colorful swirls and stripes that characterize China's Rainbow Mountains would have remained hidden without the epic tectonic collision that created the Himalayas. Comments ( 0 ) ( ) ...