If you’re looking to plan a trip that will enlighten you and your kids, we’ve compiled a ... where the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates are slowly pulling apart.

Volcanoes are usually formed where tectonic plates are diverging (moving apart ... This will help you show the kids how the thin crust of the earth floats on top of the liquid mantle. Some volcanoes ...

Related video: Costa Rica: Póas Volcano Eruptions Prompt Orange Alert ... rather than the collision of tectonic plates. Chilean disaster agency Senapred has affirmed its commitment to ongoing ...

It is one of 24 active volcanoes in the Philippines, which sits along the Pacific "Ring of Fire" – a 40,000km horseshoe-shaped belt around the Pacific Ocean where tectonic plates meet ...

In the 1990s, an entire city in the Caribbean vanished under ash. Plymouth, Montserrat, once vibrant, now lies frozen in time—buried by a volcano still simmering beneath the surf ...

A giant sequoia located in Sequoia National Park in California, the General Sherman is 52,500 feet in volume and is more than ...

Volcanoes on the peninsula had not erupted ... a fault in the ocean floor that separates the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates and causes earthquakes and eruptions.

Investigating the causes and consequences of volcanoes and featuring case studies ... s crust are mostly found at the boundaries of tectonic plates… At constructive boundaries - usually deep ...

Lava from an eruption. Most volcanic eruptions are caused by pieces of the Earth's crust, called tectonic plates, moving towards each other. Some volcanoes, like Mauna Loa in Hawaii are caused by ...

Mantle plumes can stay fixed in place for millions of years while tectonic plates move slowly above them. As a plate drifts, the plume continues to produce volcanoes, which form a chain of islands.

But hear us out a second—800 million years ago, the tectonic plates of Earth came together ... the aptly-named Stromboli Volcano has been non-stop erupting for more than 2,000 years.