If you think about mountain ranges like the Andes or the Himalayas, you can come up with multiple factors that must affect their size and shape. There’s the collision of tectonic plates that ...

As the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates slowly collide, the Himalayan mountains continue to rise. However a new study suggests the Indian plate may be peeling apart, causing a slab tear ...

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Like many local mountain ranges, the jagged peaks of the Gore Range were created by the ancient and ongoing forces of plate tectonics and later shaped by the forces of wind, water and ice. Rick ...

Researchers recently discovered a huge chain of extinct volcanoes buried deep below South China that formed when two tectonic ...

Scientists have concluded that the great mountain ranges of the world produced by the collision of Earth's tectonic plates reached their great heights thanks to lubricating graphite, which ...

Only 1% of the world's longest mountain range, which is submerged under the ocean, has been studied beyond mapping, but sheds light on plate tectonics.

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Plate tectonics is fascinating, just by its sheer scale. It's also a nice example for empirical findings built on the previous 'continental drift' theory by Alfred Wegener.