These findings have raised urgent scientific questions about the stability of one of Earth’s most active tectonic zones. The Indian Plate, which has been colliding with the Eurasian Plate for about 60 ...

This part of the planet plays a crucial role in shaping surface features like mountains and volcanoes, and it drives plate tectonics through slow-moving convection currents. Scientists have long ...

Here, the Indian Plate is breaking into layers. The crust is peeling away from the mantle, and a soft, hot rock layer from inside the Earth, called the asthenosphere, is pushing in between. This ...

Their tomographic modeling suggests that an oceanic tectonic plate known as the Farallon Plate underneath a large portion of the Pacific Ocean may be to blame. First seismically imaged in the ...