Credit: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ... These trenches mark areas where continental plates collide in what are known as convergent plate boundaries. Trenches are where half ...

Today these sea creatures are entombed 8,849 meters (29,032 feet) above sea level. At that elevation, Mount Everest scrapes the jet stream; winds of well over 160 kilometers (100 miles) per hour ...

Earlier convergence between the Eurasian plate and oceanic crust underlying the Tethys ... As long as the continental collision continues, he said, the Himalayas will rise.

“The subduction below Myanmar is very oblique- the oceanic plate is sliding under Myanmar with ... causing a lot of shaking at the surface, and their continental nature means population centres can be ...

In an article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) ...

A team presents new details of an oceanic transform fault at the Gofar fault in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The work reveals unexpected brine deposits beneath the seafloor near the fault, which could ...

The India-Asia continental collision and the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau have long been attributed to continuous Cenozoic convergence with two generic assumptions: the ongoing India-Asia collision ...

Scientists discovered Earth's first crust had continental chemical signatures. This challenges beliefs about when these ...

In response, the Second Continental Congress established the Continental Army on June 14, 1775, appointing General George Washington as its commander. Men from all walks of life answered the call ...