There's a strange slice of Planet Earth deep below the Pacific Ocean near Easter Island which may explain the East Pacific Rise, the ... slow beneath the Nazca Plate that borders South America's ...

The tiny Juan de Fuca plate ... boundaries in the oceans, magma from deep in the Earth's mantle rises toward the surface and pushes apart two or more plates. Mountains and volcanoes rise along ...

The team also modeled tectonic plate dynamics for four hypothetical plateaus located between 750 and 1,500 kilometers (466 to 932 miles) from the nearest subduction zone, to get a better ...