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

The process subsequently formed the Atlantic Ocean, while the ancient Tethys Ocean transitioned into the existing Mediterranean Sea. The tectonic plates are continually moving and may form an ...

Study Suggests the Atlantic Ocean Is Expanding by a Couple of Inches Every Year Due to a Massive Upwelling The Atlantic Ocean is expanding at a rate of about 1.5 inches annually due to a massive ...

The Atlantic Ocean may begin to shrink ... as they are able to appear and close due to the work of plate tectonics. More specifically, subduction zones — where tectonic plates slip over and ...

While the Atlantic expands, the Pacific Ocean, meanwhile, is shrinking. Every year, it shrinks by about two-and-half centimetres as the tectonic plates that the Americas sit on are pushed westward.