Tungsten (W), a hard, heat-resistant, and corrosion-resistant metal, is indispensable to modern high-tech industries—from ...

New research has dramatically reshaped our understanding of Earth’s early geological history, overturning traditional beliefs ...

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

A tectonic clash in Tibet formed giant copper deposits, revealing how recycled crust can power clean energy and reshape ...

This study presents a new 1.8-billion-year full-plate tectonic model, integrating geological and paleomagnetic data to ...

Although the plate is a relatively new tectonic unit, it combines materials that have formed over a long period of geologic time. These rocks comprise a 45-km-thick layer of continental crust. Because ...

Chemical fingerprints from volcanic rock offer hints of what’s happening in the mantle below the area where three rift zones ...

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

Rigorous analysis of via-plate-pair interactions requires the impedance of a plate pair to be defined in terms of radial transmission lines on perfect magnetic conductor (PMC) ports. The plate domain ...

Join me on an unforgettable adventure as I go snorkeling in Iceland's stunning tectonic plates! Experience the breathtaking beauty of Thingvellir National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, where ...

If the new age of these Canadian rocks is solid, they would be the first and only ones known to have survived Earth’s earliest, tumultuous time.

Tectonic action is splitting Africa apart to produce a new ocean, according to University of Southampton scientists who have investigated unusual pulses emanating from beneath the continent that are ...