Some plates grind past one another while others crash head-on in such a way that one plate dives beneath the other, generating especially devastating earthquakes.

Remo threw in the clutch and let the car coast to a stop, then shifted into first gear, grinding the gears past the racing engine.

They can be seen aboard columns of buses that grind over dust-choked roads past bombed mosques and churches, homes and factories.

NEzt, grind the sides down about halfway, but do not grind past the point where the front of the sight makes contact.

Driven by hot, upwelling fluids, the plates grind past one another at a rate of two to four inches a year, creating vast fault zones that produce earthquakes.

On still others, the two sides grind past each other laterally.

Colliding plates grind past one another about as fast as fingernails grow.

The colliding plates grind past one another about as fast as fingernails grow and over time produce mountains and swarms of earthquakes as frictional stresses build and release.

The result is that the Pacific plate no longer bumps and grinds past the North American plate.

The Pacific Plate grinds northwestward past the North American Plate at a rate of about two inches per year.