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 ...

In 2021, geologists animated a video that shows how Earth's tectonic plates moved over the last billion years.; The plates move together and apart at the speed of fingernail growth, and the video ...

There are three primary types of plate tectonic movement: divergent motion, where plates move away from each other such as the mid-ocean ridge; transform motion, ...

Plate tectonics is the widely accepted theory that the Earths crust is divided into several sections that float around on the mantle the mostly solid layer between the core and the crust.