High-Resolution Anisotropic Tomography Reveals Mantle Flow Complexity and Slab-Plume Interactions, Redefining Subduction Zone ...

A new World Bank report charts a path to high-income status by 2047, but the journey demands seismic shifts: a near-doubling ...

Lost continents continue to be discovered as the technology to study our ever-shifting tectonic plates grows more advanced.

"Solar heat drives atmospheric temperature changes, which in turn can affect things like rock properties," the researchers said.

For centuries, the world has accepted the idea that Earth is divided into seven continents: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, and South America. However, a recent study is ...

Earthquakes occur along fault lines between continental plates, where one plate is diving beneath another. Pressure builds between each plate, called fault stress. When this stress builds enough ...

Earthquakes happen most often where tectonic plates meet. Tectonic plates are pieces of crust that fit together like ... Networks of seismographs all around the world are constantly working to record ...

Plato (PLAte TOrque algorithm) is a specialised python package to study the torques acting on tectonic plates from GPlates plate reconstructions.

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