Italy is the only country in mainland Europe with active volcanoes. This volcanic activity is due chiefly to the presence of the boundary between the Eurasian and African tectonic plates.

The Great Rift in East Africa is one of the few spots on Earth being actively separated by tectonic activity and will ...

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

Trigger volcanoes ... Four types of plate tectonic activity are demonstrated in this feature. Keep an eye on the map to see where in the world the activity takes place. Also known as spreading ...

Map of the Word with lines marking boundaries of tectonic plates ... is split into sections called plates, which move. These movements create mountains, volcanoes and oceans.

A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor ... feet tall — are formed by the movements of tectonic plates. Using SWOT data, the team mapped individual ...

These peaks straddle the North American and Pacific tectonic plates. As the plates ... used to study underwater volcanoes lacked sufficient resolution to fully map magma chambers.

Here we explain how and why the crisis developed. Iceland is a country of fire and ice, home to several volcanoes and straddling two tectonic plates. The Eyjafjallajokull volcano began erupting in ...

Japan’s position along the “Ring of Fire”, a string of hundreds of volcanoes and earthquake sites in the Pacific Ocean, makes ...

The tiny Juan de Fuca plate is largely responsible for the volcanoes that dot the Pacific ... The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries: convergent, where plates ...