Scotese studies how plate tectonics and a warming climate will change Earth's appearance in the future, and he has made multiple animated maps based from his research. For more animations from ...

we can project into the future. “Accurate spatial models of tectonic plates and geological terranes are important for analyzing and interpreting a wide variety of geoscientific data and ...

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 ...

Plate tectonic theory shows that the crust of the ... moving at about the same speed as your fingernails grow, so the map of the world will continue to change, but just very, very, very slowly.

The new research suggests that the necessity for large oceans, continents and plate tectonics—the latter lasting for over 500 million years—should also be taken into account. Map of the Word ...

The map highlights in yellow the zones of the Pacific Plate that are being pulled apart by the sinking tectonic plate along the Pacific Ring of Fire.

at least not in the near-term geological future. But, in light of the ever-evolving and dynamic interplay between Earth's tectonic plates, it is clear that this subduction boundary will not last ...