Tag: Plate Tectonics

Credit: Ian Dalziel Ian W.D. Dalziel, a professor in the Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at ...

ETH researchers analyse marsquakesCredit: NASA / JPL-Caltech Since early 2019, researchers have been recording and analysing marsquakes as part of ...

Credit: J. Tennyson The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) is pleased to announce the launch of its first new journal in ...

Discovery illuminates a 120-million-year record of ancient Earth Hundreds of millions of years ago, in the middle of what would ...

Supervolcano fed from Earth's mantle caused crustal plates to rotateCredit: Alisha Steinberger The plates of the Earth's crust perform complicated ...

Credit: Julie Albaric Seismic waves passing through the ground near Longyearbyen in the Adventdalen valley, Svalbard, Norway have been slowing ...

Seamounts offer clue to solving a tectonic puzzleCredit: Christine Chesley, using GeoMapApp and data from William Ryan et al., Geochemistry, ...

Data from boreholes in plate boundaries could explain slow earthquakesCredit: © 2021 JAMSTEC-IODP Slow earthquakes are long-period earthquakes that are ...

New study that includes contributions by Baylor planetary geophysicist Peter James, identifies previously unrecognized pattern of tectonic deformation on VenusCredit: ...

Credit: NC State University, based upon original NASA/JPL imagery. A new analysis of Venus' surface shows evidence of tectonic motion ...

Credit: Mark Stirling For the first time, researchers have used precariously-balanced rocks to set the formal design earthquake motions for ...

Credit: Credits: NASA Every year, landslides - the movement of rock, soil, and debris down a slope - cause thousands ...

Super sensors as possible outputs of a quantum gravity experimentCredit: University of Groningen Last year, Anupam Mazumdar, a physicist from ...

For his unmatched efforts in transforming seismic data sharing, archiving and standardization, the Seismological Society of America (SSA) honors Timothy ...

Earth science faculty member will apply her early career award to opening up geoscience to others The National Science Foundation ...

There has long been controversy about whether the world's highest region, Tibet, has grown taller during the recent geological past. ...

The cause of Earth's deepest earthquakes has been a mystery to science for more than a century, but a team ...

Credit: Takayuki Ishii While the plates carry water to the Earth's interior, phase transitions of dry olivine, the main mineral ...

Credit: UT Jackson School of Geosciences/UTIG Slow slip earthquakes, a type of slow motion tremor, have been detected at many ...

Researchers find that a large earthquake could set off eruption of Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcanoCredit: USGS MIAMI - Scientists from ...