Plates. Everyone uses them. It’s hard to imagine dinner being set directly on top of a table and the free-for-all that would ...

HAMAR LASER INSTRUMENTS INC. released its L-703SP Surface Plate Calibration System, a compact geometry laser-based calibration system that is highly repeatable, offers extremely high resolution and ...

This process, called plate tectonics, is responsible for earthquakes, volcanoes, ocean ridges and vast mountain ranges on Earth's surface. We know that other rocky bodies, such as Venus , are ...

Far beneath the ocean's surface, where mountain belts rise and ancient oceanic crust lies hidden, a long-lost tectonic plate ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Surface-Plates, or Planometers, and Scraped Surfaces ” in SA Supplements Vol. 1 No. 15supp (April 1876), p. 225 doi:10.1038 ...