• Question: Do you ever discover new plate boundaries or are they all already established?

    Asked by Rosie to Gaël on 9 Nov 2021.
    • Photo: Gaël Lymer

      Gaël Lymer answered on 9 Nov 2021: last edited 9 Nov 2021 9:08 am

      Bonjour 🙂
      That is an excellent question! Most of the plates are well known and established, and most of their boundaries as well. For example the oceanic ridges (a chain of mountains and volcanoes that run across all the oceans) are clear plates boundaries. But some boundaries are still debated and their location is not completely known; this is the case for example in the Mediterranean Sea where several very little tectonic plates (that we call “micro-plates”) make the boundary very unclear between the big European and the African plates .

      So if you want to join to help geologists to define these boundaries, there is still some work to do 🙂

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