The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...

The Pacific Northwest boasts an extensive network of more than 600 seismic monitoring stations that help researchers track ...

Throughout Earth’s history, the continents have been constantly on the move, converging and diverging in cycles that have shaped the planet’s surface for billions of years. This process, known as ...

Geologists from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how the Earth’s early continents formed during the Archean time, more than 2.5 billion years ago. Their ...

Due to the radiative thermal conductivity of the mineral olivine, only oceanic plates over 60 million years old and subducting at more than 10 centimeters per year remain sufficiently cold to ...

Megathrust earthquakes are large earthquakes that occur on faults found along the boundaries between tectonic plates. The ...

These transformations influence tectonic plate dynamics and mantle convection. The discovery of an unusually thick transition zone beneath the Lesser Antilles suggests a unique, basalt-rich ...

The researchers studied the video frame-by-frame using a technique known as pixel cross-correlation. This revealed that the ...

If the new age of these Canadian rocks is solid, they would be the first and only ones known to have survived Earth’s earliest, tumultuous time.

This Collection invites original research on plate tectonics modelling, including multidisciplinary and integrative studies.

The Tintina fault has triggered many more earthquakes than was thought — and a build-up of strain poses a hazard.

"I can't wait to see the science that it produces and the impact that it has. I think it will help people around the world." ...