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 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 ...

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.

Earth bubbles and broils beneath an underwater peak called Axial Seamount, located 480 kilometers (300 miles) off Oregon's ...

One of the most active volcanoes in the world sits just a few hundred miles off the U.S. West Coast, and some scientists ...