Top geology award goes to Ian Dalziel of The University of Texas at Austin
Credit: Ian Dalziel Ian W.D. Dalziel, a professor in the Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at ...
Tag: Plate Tectonics
The anatomy of a planet
ETH researchers analyse marsquakesCredit: NASA / JPL-Caltech Since early 2019, researchers have been recording and analysing marsquakes as part of ...
RAS launches new multi-disciplinary journal
Credit: J. Tennyson The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) is pleased to announce the launch of its first new journal in ...
Continental pirouettes
Supervolcano fed from Earth's mantle caused crustal plates to rotateCredit: Alisha Steinberger The plates of the Earth's crust perform complicated ...
New study helps explain ‘silent earthquakes’ along New Zealand’s North Island
Seamounts offer clue to solving a tectonic puzzleCredit: Christine Chesley, using GeoMapApp and data from William Ryan et al., Geochemistry, ...
Boring to study slow earthquakes
Data from boreholes in plate boundaries could explain slow earthquakesCredit: © 2021 JAMSTEC-IODP Slow earthquakes are long-period earthquakes that are ...
Crustal block tectonics offer clues to Venus’ geology, study finds
New study that includes contributions by Baylor planetary geophysicist Peter James, identifies previously unrecognized pattern of tectonic deformation on VenusCredit: ...
Balanced rocks set design ground motion values for New Zealand dam
Credit: Mark Stirling For the first time, researchers have used precariously-balanced rocks to set the formal design earthquake motions for ...
Machine learning model doubles accuracy of global landslide ‘nowcasts’
Credit: Credits: NASA Every year, landslides - the movement of rock, soil, and debris down a slope - cause thousands ...
From burglar alarms to black hole detectors
Super sensors as possible outputs of a quantum gravity experimentCredit: University of Groningen Last year, Anupam Mazumdar, a physicist from ...
What causes the deep Earth’s most mysterious earthquakes?
The cause of Earth's deepest earthquakes has been a mystery to science for more than a century, but a team ...
‘Slow slip’ earthquakes’ hidden mechanics revealed
Credit: UT Jackson School of Geosciences/UTIG Slow slip earthquakes, a type of slow motion tremor, have been detected at many ...
New study shines light on hazards of Earth’s largest volcano
Researchers find that a large earthquake could set off eruption of Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcanoCredit: USGS MIAMI - Scientists from ...
Electromagnetic anomalies that occur before an earthquake
Credit: Copyright © 2021, Yuji Enomoto, Shinshu University It has been documented over hundreds of years that various electromagnetic anomalies ...
Earthquake creates ecological opportunity
Credit: Felix Vaux A University of Otago study has revealed how earthquake upheaval has affected New Zealand's coastal species. Lead ...
Colonization of the Antilles by South American fauna: Giant sunken islands as a passageway
Credit: © Cornée et al. Fossils of land animals from South America have been found in the Antilles, but how ...
Earth’s oldest minerals date onset of plate tectonics to 3.6 billion years ago
Ancient zircons from the jack hills of western Australia hone date of an event that was crucial to making the ...
Earthquake early warnings launch in Wash., completing West Coast-wide ShakeAlert system
Credit: Mark Stone/University of Washington When the Big One hits, the first thing Washington residents notice may not be the ...
NTU study of ancient corals in Indonesia reveals slowest earthquake ever recorded
Study highlights missing factors or mismodelling in global risk assessmentsCredit: NTU Singapore A 'slow-motion' earthquake lasting 32 years - the ...
Hidden within African diamonds, a billion-plus years of deep-earth history
Scientists find a new way to tell ages of the stones, and what made themCredit: Yaakov Weiss Diamonds are sometimes ...