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Supercontinent rift formed bizarre Bunbury rocks

Southern California’s tectonic plates revealed in detail

Scientists reconstruct what the Gibraltar Arc was like 9 million years...

Computer models solve geologic riddle millions of years in the making

Fig. 1 Map of the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake and surrounding area. (A) Transpressional tectonic setting of the northeastern South Island of New Zealand. (B) Map of surface ruptures from the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake, shown in bold black lines with the Papatea fault in red (8, 28). Dots represent scaled relative energy release from back-projection results (15) and are colored by time since rupture onset. Mapped active faults that did not rupture during the Kaikōura event are indicated by thin black lines (28). Credit: Science Advances 02 Oct 2019: Vol. 5, no. 10, eaax5703, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aax5703

Unusual fault rupture during Kaikōura quake

The birth and death of a tectonic plate

Plate tectonics

Earth’s tectonic plates are weaker than once thought

Mylonite is a fine-grained, compact metamorphic rock produced by dynamic recrystallization of the constituent minerals resulting in a reduction of the grain size of the rock. Credit: Wikipedia

Going with the grains to explain a fundamental tectonic force

Diamond’s 2-billion-year growth charts tectonic shift in early Earth’s carbon cycle

This is seismic reflection data.

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

Massive Ancient Tectonic Slab Found Below the Indian Ocean

Early organic carbon got deep burial in mantle

What set the Earth’s plates in motion? “The origin of plate...

Red Sea Rift

The Atlantis II fracture zone in the southwestern Indian Ocean with a zoom on the northern corner. The greater water depth in the transform valley is clearly visible. As the plates move, magmatism in the corners refills the deep transform valleys so that the adjacent fracture zones are shallower. Graphic: Christoph Kersten/GEOMAR according to Grevemeyer et al., 2021

A new view on plate tectonics

inner core (USC Graphic/Edward Sotelo)

The Earth moves far under our feet: A new study shows...

Questions of continental crust

The concurrent subduction of the Pacific and Atlantic plates resulted in the formation of a mantle plum and the ascent of magma. (ill./©: Nicolas Riel)

Plate tectonic processes in the Pacific and Atlantic during the Cretaceous...

subducted oceanic crust inferred from this study.

Fate of the subducted oceanic crust revealed by laboratory experiments

How Earth’s Pacific plates collapsed

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