Spanning 5,000 km along the Indian Ocean, the ridge was shaped ... to the ancient Tethys Ocean and mantle changes caused by tectonic plate shifts. Researchers used advanced models to simulate ...

Everest, about 60 million years ago, was the rapid movement of India northward toward the continent of EuroAsia; Click here for a present-day map of ... by the Earth's tectonic plates like people ...

In the Indian Ocean, there is a place where the laws of gravity seem to falter—a gigantic depression in the Earth’s geoid ...

She noted that this would happen because the Indian tectonic plate continues to crash with the Eurasian plate beneath Myanmar. The geologist further noted that there could be hindrances in ...