Thousands of mounds and hills in Mars’ barren northern plains are full of clay minerals, providing evidence that the rocks ...

Videos aired by China’s state broadcaster ... Tibet and Nepal lie on a major geological fault line where the Indian tectonic plate pushes up into the Eurasian plate, forming the Himalayas ...

“Marlon was a visionary,” says Hinano Murphy, the cultural director for the Tetiaroa Society, the nonprofit in charge of conservation, education and research ... from a hot spot in the Pacific Plate, ...

Now think of the pieces of the eggshells as tectonic plates. For millions of years, these plates have been moving, very slowly. They can bump, slide, or pull each other apart. In December of 2004, the ...

Scientists analyzing seismic data from southern Tibet discovered that the Indian tectonic plate is fragmenting as it subducts beneath the Eurasian plate, reshaping our understanding of the forces ...

These findings could provide new insights into tectonic activity and earthquake risks in the region. Geologists believe the Indian Plate has experienced multiple tears due to varying thickness and ...

The modern understanding of the plate tectonic cycle predicts that remnants of submerged plates will be found near subduction zones. However, a new high-resolution model shows that these remnants ...

Dr. Matt Weller's latest research, completed as a Urey Fellow at the Universities Space Research Association's (USRA) Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI), provides compelling new answers to this ...

Constructive plate margins close constructive plate marginAn area where two tectonic plates are moving away from one another. are where tectonic plates pull apart due to convection currents in the ...

Over 25 years ago, researchers discovered that some of these deep Earth reverberations pointed to the existence of two underground “super-continents” hundreds of miles beneath Africa and the Pacific ...

The two main types of natural hazards are tectonic and climatic. Natural hazards can have economic, social and environmental consequences. The risks of these occurring can vary greatly.