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$Piecing together the Alaska coastline’s fractured volcanic activity$

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

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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

When Continents Collide: New Twist to 50-Million-Year-Old Tale

Geology Page - March 1, 2012

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