Deep beneath the mountains of the Himalayas, something remarkable is taking place. The vast, rocky plate supporting India, ...

Reconstruction through time (top) showing the Indian Plate breaking away from the Gondwana supercontinent and subducting under Asia, thereby helping to create the world's highest topography ...

Before the collision commenced, the Indian Plate displayed variations in thickness ... the analysis of earthquake waves traversing the boundary between crustal and mantle rock.

A fault line along that Indian-Eurasian plate boundary runs almost directly beneath the city. Image: A building is damaged after the earthquake hit in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. Pic: AP Over decades ...

Spanning 5,000 km along the Indian Ocean, the ridge was shaped by ... ancient Tethys Ocean and mantle changes caused by tectonic plate shifts. Researchers used advanced models to simulate the ...

The chain runs down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean (surfacing at Iceland), around Africa, through the Indian Ocean ... which is pushing a plate into the west coast of South America, the rate ...

Those north revealed mantle gas, marking the boundary of the intact Indian Plate sliding beneath Tibet. Yet, a group of springs south of this line, near Bhutan, oddly showed mantle helium.