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A fresh surface rupture of the Kekerengu fault, taken 4 days after the Kaikoura earthquake, with lead author Jesse Kearse leaning next to a curved slickenline (the subject of this article). Photo credit - Professor Tim Little (Victoria University of Wellington).

Curved slickenlines preserve the direction of rupture propagation

continents

New model suggests lost continents for early Earth

Deep earthquake swarms show the path of fluids released from the subducted Pacific Plate.

Earthquake swarms reveal missing piece of tectonic plate-volcano puzzle

Plate Tectonics

Plate tectonics may have driven ‘Cambrian Explosion’

Grand Canyon

Glacial sediments greased the gears of plate tectonics

Contact Metamorphism Vs. Regional Metamorphism

Contact Metamorphism Vs. Regional Metamorphism

Contact Metamorphism

Contact Metamorphism : What is Contact Metamorphism? How it formed?

Regional Metamorphism

Regional Metamorphism : What is regional metamorphism? How it formed?

Subsidence in Tuscany

Monitoring Earth’s shifting land

Subduction Zone - Earth

How life on Earth affected its inner workings

Diamond

Diamonds reveal how continents are stabilized, key to Earth’s habitability

India , Asia

When India Slammed Into Asia

plate boundaries

What are the different types of plate tectonic boundaries?

K-T Boundary / K-Pg Boundary

K-T Boundary “Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary”

Badlands near Drumheller, Alberta

K-Pg Boundary “Cretaceous–Paleogene Boundary”

Earth's mantle (dark red) lies below the crust (brown layer near the surface) and above the outer core (bright red).

The solid Earth breathes

Explosive volcanic crater (maar) with small lake at the bottom close to Dilo

New light into the recent evolution of the African rift valley

Over the last 540 million years, as the Earth's tectonic plates have shifted, MIT researchers have found that periods of major tectonic activity (orange lines) in the tropics (green belt) were likely triggers for ice ages during those same periods.

Tectonics in the tropics trigger Earth’s ice ages

Tibetan Plateau

Tibetan plateau rose later than we thought

subducted oceanic crust inferred from this study.

Fate of the subducted oceanic crust revealed by laboratory experiments

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