New research reveals the source of this carbon – and the driving forces behind it – are far more complex than previously ...
Around the Balkan Peninsula, the African plate is sinking beneath the European plate. A piece of deeply submerged African ...
Off the rugged north coast of California, one of the most seismically volatile corners of the United States is yielding a new ...
Our world’s surface is a jumble of jostling tectonic plates, with new ones emerging as others are pulled under. The ongoing cycle keeps our continents in motion and drives life on Earth. But what ...
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The Andes Mountains are much taller than plate tectonic theories predict they should be, a fact that has puzzled geologists for decades. Mountain-building models tend to focus on the ...
A study on tectonic plates that converge on the Tibetan Plateau has shown that Earth's fault lines are far weaker and the ...
It was a groundbreaking discovery. Scientists have found previously concealed fault lines along California’s north coast, sparking concerns that we could be drastically underestimating the earthquake ...
Our world’s surface is a jumble of jostling tectonic plates, with new ones emerging as others are pulled under. The ongoing cycle keeps our continents in motion and drives life on Earth. But what ...