Now in Nature, Wannamaker and colleagues use electrical resistivity data to investigate a plate boundary in New Zealand where a subduction zone beneath the North Island is lengthening at the ...

At collision zones fold mountains will be formed. These are plate boundaries where two plates are either slipping past each other in opposite directions or at different rates in the same direction.

Earth's continents are slowly moving across the planet's surface due to plate tectonics ... Three such collision zones form the Himalaya-Tibetan Plateau, the European Alps and the Zagros Mountains ...

The MTZ is like a boundary layer in Earth's ... including asthenospheric upwelling, plate extension, and surface uplift in the collision zone. These changes have significant geological ...