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

Geologists have uncovered the remains of a massive tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean, a plate that had been hidden for ...

The vertical movement of the mantle is one of the driving forces that brings about large-scale geological changes to the ...

The mantle upwelling beneath the Afar rift may be influenced by tectonic processes in the overriding lithospheric plates that shape the distribution of both the compositional heterogeneities and ...

An international study has revealed how continental collisions may have supercharged the Earth's richest deposits of copper, ...

Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it ...

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

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 ...

The Nankai Ridge is a 500-mile underwater trench that runs parallel to Japan's Pacific coast, where one tectonic plate is 'submerging' – slowly sliding – beneath another. Over the past 1,400 years, ...