New crust is continually being pushed away from divergent ... boundary where the two plates meet is called a convergent boundary. Deep trenches appear at these boundaries, caused by the oceanic ...

That’s all thanks to the lithosphere, a solid layer of crust and part of the upper mantle that’s broken into more than a dozen slabs, or plates, of varying sizes. These pieces, divided between older ...

Oceanic transform faults have historically been thought of as simple, predictable features. They represent the least well-studied of the three major plate boundaries, which include divergent ...