This schematic illustration of the 2014 Iquique earthquake off the coast of Chile (magnitude 8.1) shows the locations of foreshocks (blue) and aftershocks (red) relative to the area of large slip on the fault (contour lines).

Analysis of major earthquakes supports stress reduction assumptions

The oceanic slow carbon cycle.

How seafloor weathering drives the slow carbon cycle

This is seismic reflection data.

Tiny fossils, huge slides: Are diatoms the key to Earth’s biggest...

The Nazca plate moves eastwards with a rate of 6.6 cm per year.

Residual strain despite mega earthquake

Dramatic cliffs on the shores of Lake Superior.

What geologists got wrong about the world’s biggest failed rift

Everest

Earthquakes in the Himalaya are bigger than in the Alps because...

Time slices of the computational geodynamic model showing dripping continental root and eventual surface uplift over a 4.5 million year period across Turkey's Central Anatolian Plateau

Geophysicists uncover new evidence for an alternative style of plate tectonics

The hydrothermal circulation changes the ocean crust and increases the Chlorine (CL) concentration of the rocks by incorporation of sea water

Water cooling for the Earth’s crust

Bioclastic limestone and cross-bedded conglomerate are visible in exposed rocks at Marl Wash in the Bouse Formation, south of Blythe, California

Colorado River’s connection with the ocean was a punctuated affair

An illustration from the paper showing oxygen and hydrogen cycling in the deep Earth

When water met iron deep inside the Earth, did it create...

The East African Rift System

When continents break it gets warm on Earth

Seafloor topography

How the Pacific seafloor got its 60-degree bend

Lithospheric-scale processes involved in the precursor stage of formation of the Deseado Massif auriferous province.

Plume-subduction interaction forms large auriferous provinces

Plate Tectonics

What is Plate Tectonics?

Plate tectonics

Earth’s tectonic plates are weaker than once thought

Large meteorite impacts drove plate-tectonic processes on the early Earth

Measuring the strength of olivine, the most abundant mineral in the...

Tectonic plates ‘weaker than previously thought,’ say scientists

Data mining finds more than expected beneath Andean Plateau

Ancient Earth’s hot interior created ‘graveyard’ of continental slabs

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