back to top
27.8 C
New York
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Home plate tectonics

plate tectonics

Random
A cut slice of altered mantle rock. (Photo by: Solvin Zankl)

Researchers studying ocean transform faults, describe a previously unknown part of...

Grand Canyon

Glacial sediments greased the gears of plate tectonics

As part of MISTI-India, Megan Guenther, a junior in EAPS, records field notes about the landscape of the Kohistan-Ladakh region of the Himalayas in northern India. Credit: Craig Martin

Collision course: A geological mystery in the Himalayas

Scientists set sail to unlock secrets of ‘lost continent’ Zealandia

When tectonics killed everything

Photographs of alkaline magmatic intrusions in Greenland. The region was volcanically and tectonically active around 1.2 billion years ago. Although no longer active, it is of major interest to geologists because the subsequent uplift and glacial erosion have cut deep into the rift and exposed the magma chambers that once lay well below the surface. Greenland’s magmas were sourced from a mantle that was enriched and contaminated by ancient crustal materials. Credit: University of St Andrews

Ancient volcanoes reveal Earth’s recycled crust

How cosmic crashes could have kickstarted plate tectonics

Himalayan Range

Maximum observed earthquake magnitudes along continental transform faults

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...

Superdeep diamonds that originate hundreds of kilometers beneath Earth’s surface are like time capsules revealing how they were formed, thanks to unique combinations of minerals trapped inside the diamonds. Credit: University of Alberta

‘Superdeep’ diamond deepens our understanding of plate tectonics

Geological game changer: New study shakes up understanding of when continents...

The southern-central edge of the Tibetan Plateau near the border with western Nepal and the Indian state of Sikkim is pictured in this Sentinel-2A image from 1 February 2016. Credit: European Space Agency. Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data [2016]/ processed by ESA ,CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO/Wikimedia Commons

Crucial evidence explains anomalously fast convergence between India and Asia in...

Landscape evolution and hazards

How does Earth’s continental crust form? Scientists have a new bottom-up...

Geophysicists challenge traditional theory underlying the origin of mid-plate volcanoes

California rising

Ca-silicate inclusion inside a diamond from Kankan, Guinea. Photo credit: Margo Regier.

Superdeep diamonds provide a window on supercontinent growth

Continental crust thanks to the right mixture

A map of the World Ocean Floor. Credit: Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division

Geologists take Earth’s inner temperature using erupted sea glass

123...19Page 1 of 19

Related Articles

All
Facebook Instagram Linkedin TikTok Twitter Youtube
© 2011-2025. All Rights Reserved.