Tag: Plate Tectonics

New findings suggest a re-thinking of massive underwater volcanoCredit: University of Houston The discovery of Tamu Massif, a gigantic volcano ...

GeoSEA sensors document tectonic strain build-up below the Marmara SeaCredit: Jan Steffen, GEOMAR Collapsed houses, destroyed port facilities and thousands ...

Credit: Derrick Hasterok A new radioactivity model of Earth's ancient rocks calls into question current models for the formation of ...

Credit: Navin Thapa, Tribhuvan University of Kathmandu The Himalaya Mountains are a geological wonder, drawing adventurers and religious devotees from ...

Credit: University of Plymouth The cumulative stresses caused by historic earthquakes could provide some explanation as to why and where ...

The quest to discover what drove one of the most important evolutionary events in the history of life on Earth ...

Researchers uncover the way that platinum deposits form in the magma chambers of some of the worlds' largest platinum depositsCredit: ...

Credit: Image courtesy of the UI Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. Researchers at the University of Iowa and the ...

A new book by Robert Hazen, Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything, celebrates carbon in all ...

New research from University of Alberta scientists dispels misconceptions about origins of banded iron formationsCredit: Tom Price A new study ...

New research from University of Alberta scientists suggests the mountains formed in a westward collision event more than 100 million ...

NSF XSEDE resources Stampede, Stampede2, comet support multi-fault earthquake researchThis video shows a simulation of a dynamic rupture model. The ...

Credit: Korean Central News Agency WASHINGTON-- North Korea detonated a nuclear device in 2017 equivalent to about 250 kilotons of ...

Could a new classification system that accounts for minerals' distinct journeys help us better understand mineralogy as a process of ...