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The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...
During the devastating magnitude 7.7 Myanmar earthquake on March 28 this year, a CCTV camera captured the moment the plate ...
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 ...
A new method integrates Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) with conventional ground geodetic networks, taking ...
Earthquake scientists rely on distant seismic instruments to infer how faults rupture during large earthquakes. This video ...
Map of the Pangea-Tethys and Panthalassa plate tectonic realms separated by the Juction Region. Present-day plate boundaries are red (modified from Bird, 2003), relevant former plate boundaries ...
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 ...
Intraplate tectonic settings, located far from active plate margins, have historically been considered stable. However, infrequent but destructive ...
These ancient continental centers, known as cratons, are far enough from tectonic plate boundaries to have survived the plate tectonics cycle for billions of years.
Tectonics articles from across Nature Portfolio Tectonics is the study of the structural geology of the Earth and other planetary bodies, and the local and regional processes that created that ...
Not a map really, but a 5-foot-high chart showing in one glance 4,000 years of human history on a global scale. Thirty years ...
According to the Delhi Disaster Management Authority, seismicity in north India, including the Himalayas, is due to the collision between the Indian tectonic plate with the Eurasian plate.