The Ecuadorian portion of the South American subduction zone presents an interesting case study in the structure and complex evolution of an upper plate. There are outstanding questions about its ...

News Published: 01 April 1926 Salient Features in the Stratigraphy, Tectonic Structure, and Physiography of the Commonwealth of Australia 1 Nature 117, 607–608 (1926) Cite this article ...

Mount Longonot and Mount Suswa, two dormant volcanoes, are located approximately ten miles away and the area is part of the Great Rift, a very large tectonic structure stretching almost 1,900 ...

A tectonic plate is a massive slab of Earth’s outer shell, known as the lithosphere. These plates float on the asthenosphere, a softer, more flexible upper mantle layer. Earth’s lithosphere is ...

P. Chandrasekhar, K. Chandra Mouli, D. P. Rao, V. K. Dadhwal, Subsurface geological structure and tectonics as evidenced from integrated interpretation of aeromagnetic and remote sensing data over ...

Structure & Tectonics Research in structural geology and tectonics seeks to define how and why deformation occurs within the earth at scales from mineral fabrics to lithospheric plates, and at time ...

This study won’t end the debate over Venus’ tectonic structure, but the team was able to “recognize that there was a bigger picture pattern,” Herrick says.

Seismic reflection data collected during COCORP's traverse of the southern Appalachians reveal that the Triassic Riddleville basin is a half-graben defined by strong, north-dipping basal reflections ...