Yet, many of the most popular holiday destinations among British tourists are home to the most active volcanoes in the world ... the Eurasian and African tectonic plates. The most famous volcanoes ...

"It's pretty surreal to walk between two major pieces of Earth's crust that are drifting in different directions," Brooke ...

This continent may be dividing in two, according to a startling finding on the map of Earth. Africa is expected to split but only within millions of years.

Scotese studies how plate tectonics and a warming climate will change Earth's appearance in the future, and he has made multiple animated maps based from his research. For more animations from ...

Plate tectonic theory shows that the crust of the ... moving at about the same speed as your fingernails grow, so the map of the world will continue to change, but just very, very, very slowly.