To learn why, where, and how earthquakes happen, you need to familiarize your students with the interior of the Earth and a model called plate tectonics. The engine behind the earthquake machine ...

After some tweaking, the models showed that approximately 200 million years after Theia struck the Earth, pressure from the ...

These ancient buried "super-continents"—known to scientists as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs)—were found ...

“Accurate spatial models of tectonic plates and geological terranes are important for analyzing and interpreting a wide variety of geoscientific data and developing compositional and physical ...

Geophysicists at ETH Zurich are using models of the lower mantle to identify ... challenges our current understanding of the Earth's plate tectonics—and presents the researchers with a major ...