Tag: Plate Tectonics

Credit: World Scientific The Age of the Earth -- A Physicist's Odyssey spells out how the age of our planet has ...

Credit: Osvaldo González-Maurel Under the volcanoes in the Andes where Chile, Argentina and Bolivia meet, there is a gigantic reservoir ...

Credit: Jens-Erik Lund Snee and Mark Zoback How do mountains form? What forces are needed to carve out a basin? ...

Stanford researchers have developed a way to quantify the economic toll that a major earthquake is likely to exact, and ...

First of its kind experiment uses diamond anvils to simulate the Earth's coreCredit: © 2020 Kelvinsong - CC BY-SA 3.0 ...

Bacteria live in tiny clay-filled cracks in solid rock millions of years oldCredit: Caitlin Devor, University of Tokyo, CC BY ...

New work reveals how carbon behaved during Earth's violent formative periodCredit: Rebecca Fischer, Elizabeth Cottrell and Marion Le Voyer, Kanani ...

New dates for fossils indicate land animal turnover extended for hundreds of thousands of yearsCredit: Photo courtesy of John Geissman ...

Credit: IODP JRSO New Zealand's largest fault is a jumble of mixed-up rocks of all shapes, sizes, compositions and origins. ...

Where tectonic plates meet, a change in angleCredit: Adapted from Oryan and Buck, Nature Geoscience 2020 On March 11, 2011, ...

Credit: Julia Carr PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Earthquakes produce seismic waves with a range of frequencies, from the long, rolling motions ...

Credit: Andrew Gase/National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Subduction zones -- places where one tectonic plate dives beneath another ...

Credit: NASA / JPL - Caltech On 26 November 2018, the NASA InSight lander successfully set down on Mars in ...

New algorithm raises hope for innovative earthquake early warning systemsCredit: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Vol 536, Zhang et al. ...

Researchers from the University of Geneva have studied the seismic activity recorded during the drilling of a geothermal well and ...

Credit: MSU photo by Kelly Gorham. BOZEMAN -- For over 100 years, scientists have studied the heat-loving microbial life in ...

A new approach to analyzing seismic data reveals deep vertical zones of low seismic velocity in the plumbing system underlying ...

Geologist Melodie French wins National Science Foundation CAREER AwardCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Jan. 31, 2020) - Rice University ...

Credit: Copyright: Borexino Collaboration Scientists involved in the Borexino collaboration have presented new results for the measurement of neutrinos originating ...

San Diego Natural History Museum paleontologist describes a dinosaur that is new to science, offers view into dinosaur-bird evolutionCredit: Ashley ...