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Piecing together the Alaska coastline’s fractured volcanic activity

Geology Page - November 20, 2020

Final model for the East African Rift System. Hashed lines indicate newly discovered broad deforming zone. Arrows represent predicted tectonic plate motions. ABFZ—Andrew Bain Fracture Zone; IFZ—Indomed Fracture Zone; RSZ—Ranotsara shear zone. Figure created by D.S. Stamps.

East African Rift System is slowly breaking away, with Madagascar splitting into pieces

Central Alps of Switzerland

Formation of the Alps: Detaching and uplifting, not bulldozing

Proposed model for deep-carbon transport along a cratonic boundary in the EARS study region.

Scientists decipher the role of carbon and the break-up of continents

Subduction zones occur where one tectonic plate dives under another. New computer modeling by Magali Billen, professor of earth and planetary sciences at UC Davis, shows why earthquakes on these sinking plates cluster at certain depths and could give insight into processes deep in the Earth. (U.S. Geological Survey)

New clues to deep earthquake mystery

Plate tectonics without jerking

Geology Page - June 30, 2016

Why do intracontinental basins subside longer?

Geology Page - June 22, 2016

Oxygen atmosphere recipe = tectonics + continents + life

Geology Page - May 17, 2016

Continental drift created biologically diverse coral reefs

Geology Page - May 7, 2016

Supercontinent rift formed bizarre Bunbury rocks

Geology Page - May 3, 2016

Researchers define links within two supercontinents

Geology Page - April 12, 2016

Ancient rocks of Tetons formed by continental collisions

Geology Page - January 30, 2016

Breakthrough in continuous monitoring of CO2 leaks from storage sites could...

Geology Page - January 24, 2016

Scientists detect deep carbon emissions associated with continental rifting

Geology Page - January 20, 2016

Chinese continental shelf of exotic origin collided with continental China 100...

Geology Page - September 22, 2015

Fragment of continental crust found under south east Iceland

Geology Page - April 14, 2015

Scientists discover elusive secret of how continents formed

Geology Page - April 1, 2015

Questions of continental crust

Geology Page - November 29, 2014

Mysterious Midcontinent Rift is a geological hybrid

Geology Page - October 17, 2014

Hottest lava eruption linked to growth of first continents

Geology Page - June 24, 2014

Earth’s breathable atmosphere a result of continents taking control of the...

Geology Page - June 9, 2014

Asymmetric continental margins and the slow birth of an ocean

Geology Page - June 7, 2014

Computer simulation sheds light on how Earth’s continents were born

Geology Page - September 16, 2013

Expedition to Study Ancient Continental Breakup West of Spain

Geology Page - May 25, 2013

New Theory On Formation of Oldest Continents

Geology Page - March 19, 2012

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A 2015 wildfire burns in the boreal forest of central Alaska. A recent study by Tyler Hoecker and Philip Higuera reconstructs fire history in a nearby boreal forest landscape and suggests that fire activity over the past several decades has been higher than at any time over the past 450 years.

Alaska forest fires over past 450 years

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