The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries: convergent, where plates move into one another; divergent, where plates move apart; and transform, where plates move sideways ...

Where the movement of currents and the mantle converge, like this, plates are pushed together. This is called a destructive or convergent plate boundary. When the plates collide, the denser plate ...

Plates at subduction zones typically move just a few centimeters per year. But when accumulated stress at these convergent plate boundaries releases suddenly, the plates can slip several meters ...

As two of Earth's great tectonic plates slowly crash together, the Mediterranean Sea is likely to be wiped off the face of ...

Also known as subduction boundary, a convergent boundary occurs where one plate slides under another as the two are pushed together. If there is land at the edge of one of these plates ...

The boundary where the two plates meet is called a convergent boundary. Deep trenches appear at these boundaries, caused by the oceanic plate bending downward into the Earth. Deep below the Earth ...

Understanding plate tectonics is key to grasping how the Earth’s geology works and how oceans and continents came to be.