Kamchatsky, a coastal city in Russia's Far East, at 11:24 pm Indian time on July 29. The earthquake area falls in the ...

The boundary where the two plates meet is called a convergent boundary. Deep trenches appear at these boundaries, caused by the oceanic plate bending downward into the Earth.

In a paper published in Science China Earth Sciences, a team of Chinese scientists present the tectonic generalization of structures, processes and products at convergent plate margins during ...

News & Views Published: 07 September 2014 Planetary science Plate tectonics on ice Michelle M. Selvans Nature Geoscience 7, 695–696 (2014) Cite this article ...

Porphyry copper deposits, an important subclass of Cordilleran-type deposits, exhibit a remarkable spatial relationship to present or former convergent plate boundary regimes. Certain copper-nickel ...

Volcanism on Earth is known to occur in three tectonic settings: divergent plate boundaries (such as mid-ocean ridges), convergent plate boundaries (such as island arcs), and hot spots. We report ...