Also known as the Circum-Pacific Belt, the Ring of Fire traces the meeting points of many tectonic plates, including the Eurasian, North American, Juan de Fuca, Cocos, Caribbean, Nazca ...

Then, as the roiling layers of soft core-mantle shifted beneath the Pangaea supercontinent 20 million years ago, a smaller plate beneath Australia converged with a more northern Eurasian one ...

Large scale landforms at a destructive plate boundary include super volcanoes, such as the Campi Flegrei volcano in Italy - where the Eurasian plate and the African Atlantic plate are moving ...