At collision zones fold mountains will be formed. These are plate boundaries where two plates are either slipping past each other in opposite directions or at different rates in the same direction.

Now in Nature, Wannamaker and colleagues use electrical resistivity data to investigate a plate boundary in New Zealand where a subduction zone beneath the North Island is lengthening at the ...

Pangea essentially turned inside out, the edges of the old continent becoming the collision zones of new continents ... million years the oceanic Indian Plate continued its inexorable collision ...

Now a team of scientists proposes this giant impact did even more: The collision left behind ... how a circular subduction zone would lead to the global plate boundaries and the mosaic of rocky ...

Earthquakes are relatively common in Myanmar, where six strong quakes of 7.0 magnitude or more struck between 1930 and 1956 ...

Miller, Tectonic inheritance during plate boundary evolution in southern California constrained ... Rajaure, Mantle earthquakes in the Himalayan collision zone, Geology, 47(9): 815-819, 2019 open ...