Their research has revealed that in the present day, deep below the Earth's surface, the Neotethys oceanic plate—the ocean floor that used to be between the Arabian and Eurasian continents—is ...

The continents are carried by the Earth's tectonic plates like people on an escalator ... For at least 80 million years the oceanic Indian Plate continued its inexorable collision with southern ...

Where the Earth's tectonic plates meet, they interact in complex geological, geochemical and geophysical ways that are part of the plate tectonic cycle. In regions of convergence, one plate can ...

The Earth is made up of different layers: Therefore, instead of tectonic plates moving because of the convection currents, evidence suggests it is the plates that drive the convection. Slab pull ...