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 ...

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 ...

A quick and engaging overview of Earth Science, the multidisciplinary field that studies our planet and its place in the universe. Earth Science is divided into three main areas of study: astronomy, ...

Scientists have uncovered a key piece of the puzzle behind the unusual "slow earthquakes" occurring off the east coast of New ...

Geophysicists Find Evidence Of First Plate Tectonics Date: March 23, 2007 Source: Scripps Institution of Oceanography / University of California, San Diego Summary: Identification of the oldest ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

At the center of this revisionist theory is Iceland, a volcanic island long viewed as a product of a deep mantle plume separating two tectonic plates. But a research team led by Dr. Jordan ...

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 ...