Earthquakes and volcanism occur as a result of plate tectonics. The movement of tectonic plates themselves is largely driven by the process known as subduction. The question of how new active ...

It was a groundbreaking discovery. Scientists have found previously concealed fault lines along California’s north coast, ...

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What appears to be such a pleasant meeting-place of the well-known rifts, in the Northern part of California, is proving to be something bigger and more dangerous than the maps indicate. Recent ...

Geoscientists have discovered a new process in plate tectonics which shows that tremendous damage occurs to areas of Earth's crust long before it should be geologically altered by known plate-boundary ...

Learn about the movement of tectonic plates off the coast of northern California, a process that could incite major ...

New research on the remixing of Earth's stratified deep interior suggests that global plate tectonic processes, which played a pivotal role in the existence of life on Earth, started to operate at ...

A new study of Venus suggests that the deeply inhospitable world may be more like Earth than we thought. A new delve into archival data collected decades ago suggests that the alien planet has ongoing ...

By tracking swarms of very small earthquakes, seismologists are getting a new picture of the complex region where the San ...

One of the most terrifying discoveries for the US population in general has just been made off the north coast of California. Scientists have found geological faults that had remai ...

Carbon released from Earth's spreading tectonic plates, not volcanoes, may have triggered major transitions between ancient ...

TORONTO, ON - Geoscientists at the University of Toronto (U of T) and Istanbul Technical University have discovered a new process in plate tectonics which shows that tremendous damage occurs to areas ...