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

For centuries, we have been taught that there are seven continents, but new research has suggested there are actually only six.

The rift valley on the tectonic plate boundaries of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is clearly visible in ... [+] Iceland's Thingvellir National Park. Thingvellir went on to serve as the center of ...

Case studies include both rifting on land, in east Africa and Iceland, and at the mid-ocean ... itself inside out through the process of plate tectonics. Advances in technology are helping to ...