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

Newton’s laws of motion and gravity, Wegener’s theory of plate tectonics, and human-made climate change all faced prolonged scrutiny before achieving consensus.

Due to the radiative thermal conductivity of the mineral olivine, only oceanic plates over 60 million years old and ...

Instead of a tempest in a teapot, imagine the cosmos in a canister. Scientists have performed experiments using nested, ...

A spot in eastern Africa called the Afar Triangle marks the meeting point of three rift zones—lines where Earth’s crust is being rent apart. Researchers haven’t been sure exactly what drives this ...

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

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology ...

Tectonics articles from across Nature Portfolio Tectonics is the study of the structural geology of the Earth and other planetary bodies, and the local and regional processes that created that ...

The birth of a behemoth The planet’s tectonic plates are in constant motion, reshaping the surface as they pull apart and collide. The Himalaya are the dramatic result of one such tectonic ...

Scientists have long wondered how Earth’s continents first formed. Now, a team of geologists from the University of Hong Kong ...

Object Details Author Condie, Kent C Condie, Kent C Plate tectonics & crustal evolution Notes Rev. ed. of: Plate tectonics & crustal evolution. 3rd ed. 1989. Date 1997 Type Books Physical description ...

Besides, the wave propagation on clamped triple-panel was done to show STL of the structure as a function of excitation frequency. Chandra et al. (2015) obtained STL of the sandwich plate with ...