Experts have been working on mapping the ocean floor with traditional methods, sending ships across the water with sonar ...

and he has made multiple animated maps based from his research. For more animations from Scotese about tectonic plate motions — past and present — and Earth history, check out his YouTube page.

Visuals that reproduce nearly two billion years of movement are essential to research initiatives that dig into Earth's history, geologic periods, and hidden tectonic plates.

The movement of these tectonic plates leads to earthquakes and volcanoes ... at about the same speed as your fingernails grow, so the map of the world will continue to change, but just very ...

Four types of plate tectonic activity are demonstrated in this feature. Keep an eye on the map to see where in the ... then release the tension with a spurt of movement. This movement is felt ...

Not all Californian coastal areas are moving lower. The Santa Barbara groundwater basin, which has been continuously ...

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 ...