Far beneath the ocean's surface, where mountain belts rise and ancient oceanic crust lies hidden, a long-lost tectonic plate ...

There’s no geological artist quite like Earth’s plate tectonics. Thanks to this ongoing operation, we have mountains and oceans, terrifying earthquakes, incandescent volcanic eruptions, and ...

The notion of consensus is poorly suited to scientific practice, where conclusions must remain revisable in light of new ...

An illustration depicting the formation of TTGs in a two-stage mantle plume-sagduction model.Image credit: Adapted from Zhao, ...

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"This has profound implications for how we interpret surface volcanism, earthquake activity and the process of continental ...

Course content The course provides an overview of the Earth's tectonic evolution in the context of plate tectonics. The first part of the course consists of lectures giving a systematic description of ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world's most devastating earthquakes and ...

They reveal that the chemical composition of the deep mantle has remained almost intact since the Earth's formation 4.5 ...

Forget Atlantis. Without realizing it, vast numbers of tourists spend their holiday each year on the lost continent of Greater Adria,” declared Douwe van Hinsbergen, professor of global tectonics and ...

Scientists have detected rhythmic pulses of molten rock rising beneath eastern Africa, threatening to pull the continent ...

An international team of geoscientists, chemists and climate scientists, has found evidence of a possible ghost plume beneath ...