"It's pretty surreal to walk between two major pieces of Earth's crust that are drifting in different directions," Brooke ...

The diagram below shows the structure of the ... Constructive plate margins close constructive plate marginAn area where two tectonic plates are moving away from one another.

Different plate tectonic settings produce distinctive basin environments where sedimentary rocks are deposited. Download a chart to use in class and an activity for practicing with these concepts: ...

Long-lost remnants of tectonic plates have been discovered sunken deep inside the Earth's mantle. These plate remains were found lurking underneath the center of other continental plates ...