New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

Tectonic plates are massive slabs of Earth's lithosphere that float atop the semi-fluid mantle, constantly shifting and ...

They can move apart (divergence), come together (convergence), or slide past each other (transformation). These interactions create subduction zones, where one plate plunges beneath another, and ...

We propose a novel license plate location method based on level set transform and Voronoi diagram. The algorithm first computes the level sets of the input image. It then retrieves the skeletons of ...

2 Assumption proposal: dynamics sources and mechanisms of plate movements The isostasy hypothesis is a theoretical model explaining the crustal movements based on the theory of plate tectonics.

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The Gangdese Tectonic Belt was formed through the prolonged subduction and collisional processes involving the Neo-Tethys Ocean and the Indian and Asian continental plates, preserving tectonic ...

A study in Geology presents evidence that subduction can spread like a contagion, jumping from one oceanic plate to another — a hypothesis previously difficult to prove.