The rock core, retrieved from a staggering depth of 1,268 meters (4,160 feet) below the seabed, was collected from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a tectonic boundary where the Eurasian Plate meets the No ...

These zones include: the Pacific Ring of Fire around the Pacific Ocean the Mid-Atlantic Ridge ... than 3,200 kilometres from the nearest plate boundary. This is explained by the 'hotspot' theory.

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge on the floor of the Atlantic ... which forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. These are known as Transform Faults.

Volcanoes are among nature’s most powerful forces — breathtaking yet potentially catastrophic. According to a visual produced ...

such as the San Andreas fault and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge). VT events cycle as many as five times a second, particularly if the earthquake is two kilometers (1.2 miles) or more below the surface.