THIS work describes the stratigraphy and tectonic structure of the Eastern Dolomites lying between Auronzo on the east and Caprile on the west and between the Drei Zinnen in the north and Cibiano ...

The Earth's crust is broken into tectonic plates . It was once believed that convection currents in the mantle caused the plates to move. However, it is now recognised to be more complicated than ...

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 ...

Karl S. Kellogg, Lawrence W. Snee, Daniel M. Unruh, The Mesoproterozoic Beaverhead Impact Structure and Its Tectonic Setting, Montana‐Idaho: 40Ar/39Ar and U‐Pb Isotopic Constraints, The Journal of ...

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 ...

Plate tectonics is the engine behind the earthquake machine. The first step towards learning about plate tectonics is to learn about the Earth's interior structure.

Data are reported for oriented coal samples taken on traverses oblique to two high angle normal faults in underground mine workings in the Southern Coalfield of the Sydney Basin, N.S.W. Apart from ...

The Earth has a layered structure made up of crust, mantle, outer core and inner core. Find out more in this BBC Bitesize guide for students aged 11-14.

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 ...