Study Suggests Earth Has Only Six Continents and Not Seven; 'The North American and European Plates Have Not Officially Broken Up' Examinations of a strip of land stretching from Greenland through ...
Most of the Pacific Plate is made up of oceanic crust. The North American Plate is the world’s second-largest tectonic plate. The Eurasian Plate has an estimated area of 67,800,000 square kilometers.
Scientists analyzing seismic data from southern Tibet discovered that the Indian tectonic plate is fragmenting as it subducts beneath the Eurasian plate, reshaping our understanding of the forces ...