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.

A research team is investigating the influence of the Zagros Mountains on the bending of Earth's surface. A team of ...

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 ...

Geophysicists find areas that resemble the results of tectonic plate collisions — far from any area of such activity.

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 ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. A massive collision between the Indian tectonic plate and the Eurasian tectonic plate ...