I’m talking about paper towel tubes, garden twine, and my personal favorite—the humble paper plate! After a picnic or ...

where plates move apart; and transform, where plates move sideways in relation to each other. They move at a rate of one to two inches (three to five centimeters) per year. Where plates serving ...

Transform boundaries neither create nor consume crust. Rather, two plates move against each other, building up tension, then releasing the tension in a sudden and often violent jerk. This sudden ...

Convergent plate motion results in compression in rocks, divergent plate motion produces tension in rocks, and transform plate motion shears rocks. This should be easy to understand after ...