The Central Mediterranean occupies a complex junction between the converging Eurasian and African plates, punctuated by microplates and small oceanic fragments. Since the Late Oligocene, subduction of ...

Around the Balkan Peninsula, the African plate is sinking beneath the European plate. A piece of deeply submerged African crust resurfaced 40 million years ago far away from the sinking zone. How this ...

“Forget Atlantis. Without realizing it, vast numbers of tourists spend their holiday each year on the lost continent of Greater Adria,” declared Douwe van Hinsbergen, professor of global tectonics and ...

Earth's surface is a turbulent place. Mountains rise, continents merge and split, and earthquakes shake the ground. All of these processes result from plate tectonics, the movement of enormous chunks ...