"The MAR separates the North American Plate from the Eurasian Plate in the North Atlantic, and the South American Plate from the African Plate in the South Atlantic. These plates are still moving ...

Scientists using GPS and satellite mapping to track how the tectonic plates underlying Africa are separating ... 50 million years ago as the Indian and Eurasian landmasses collided.

A long-lost oceanic plate is diving deep into the mantle, dragging down the crust above, researchers say. However, the plate is also tearing apart below the Zagros Mountains in Iraq as it plunges ...

such as the Campi Flegrei volcano in Italy - where the Eurasian plate and the African Atlantic plate are moving towards each other along the Mediterranean sea.

As Neotethys closed up, the oceanic crust went under the Eurasian continent. The continental portion of the Arabian plate, which underpins modern-day Iraq and Saudi Arabia, was dragged behind ...