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 ...

New Curtin University 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 ...

With steep walls and deep valleys, the Grand Canyon in the western United States or the massive gorges that saw through the margins of the Tibetan Plateau are some of the most awesome and spectacular ...

Earth's crust today has a surprisingly similar composition to the planet's first outer shell, or "protocrust," new research finds. This early rocky shell featured chemical signatures previously ...

Geologists have reconstructed a massive and previously unknown tectonic plate that was once one-quarter the size of the Pacific Ocean. The team had predicted its existence over 10 years ago based on ...

Far beneath the ocean's surface, where mountain belts rise and ancient oceanic crust lies hidden, a long-lost tectonic plate has been brought back into view. In one of Earth's most tectonically ...

How did complex life emerge and evolve on the Earth and what does this mean for finding life beyond Earth? This study holds the potential to help researchers better understand the criterion for ...

Dietmar Müller receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Adriana Dutkiewicz receives funding from the Australian Research Council (FT190100829). Andrew Merdith receives funding from ...

Classical seismological techniques such as earthquake hypocentral locations and focal-mechanism studies continue to play an important role in the understanding of active-tectonic processes, but newer ...