However, the anomalies detected under the Pacific Ocean are far from any plate boundaries, defying conventional tectonic theories. "The Pacific is one large plate, so there should not be any ...

The iguanas' 8,000-kilometer trip — one-fifth of the Earth’s circumference — is the longest made by a flightless land vertebrate.

The finding also presents scientists with a new puzzle: the pieces are far away from plate boundaries — nowhere ... could be lurking deep below the Pacific Ocean, highlighting how much there ...

These convergent boundaries also occur where a plate of ... forming deep trenches like the Mariana Trench in the North Pacific Ocean, the deepest point on Earth. These types of collisions can ...

flows northward into the Pacific Ocean as a narrow western boundary current along the Tonga–Kermadec Trench”. It seems surprising that the source water should move in such a narrow current ...

through the Indian Ocean, between Australia and Antarctica, and north through the Pacific Ocean. Running along the top of this chain of mountains is a deep crack, called a rift valley. It is here ...

Also known as the Circum-Pacific Belt ... This movement results in deep ocean trenches, volcanic eruptions, and earthquake epicenters along the boundaries where the plates meet, called fault ...

Researchers have discovered an "unexpected" accumulation of the radioactive isotope beryllium-10, deep underneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean. The team hopes their discovery could serve as an ...