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 ...

Faults are classified into three main types: normal, reverse, and strike-slip faults. ... Reverse faults are common at convergent plate boundaries, where tectonic plates collide.

But Australia's Pilbara Craton, with its 3.59 billion-year-old rocks, is a vital region for understanding the origins of plate tectonics. "The Pilbara Craton is where geologists first defined the ...

KS3 Geography. Plate tectonics: Volcanoes. A short video for 11-14 year old pupils, exploring tectonic activity and volcanoes and featuring case studies from around the world.

Moving question Plate tectonics – the horizontal movement and interaction of large plates on Earth’s surface – is considered vital to sustaining life. But new research indicates it was not happening 3 ...

Learn how the layers of the Earth are structured, and the theory of plate tectonics in this guide for KS3 geography students aged 11-14 from BBC Bitesize.

Plate tectonics also may have enabled life to recover from devastating mass extinctions. For instance, at the end of the Permian period, a mass extinction driven by carbon-dioxide-spewing volcanic ...

Have tectonic plates changed speed over the last 3 billion years? The answer has far-reaching implications, as plate tectonics affected everything from the supply of vital nutrients for early life ...

But they also hate coincidences, and a coincidence is what's behind an alternative explanation. The earliest indications of plate tectonics appeared about 3.8 billion years ago, not too long after ...

But Australia's Pilbara Craton, with its 3.59 billion-year-old rocks, is a vital region for understanding the origins of plate tectonics. "The Pilbara Craton is where geologists first defined the ...