A team presents new details of an oceanic transform fault at the Gofar fault in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The work reveals unexpected brine deposits beneath the seafloor near the fault, which could ...

Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American continent is dripping away in blobs of rock—and that the remnants of a tectonic plate sinking in Earth's mantle may be the ...

Tectonics is the study of the structural geology of the Earth ... This includes the movements of the Earth’s tectonic plates that result in the creation, destruction and rearrangement of the ...

Volcanoes. A short video for 11-14 year old pupils, exploring tectonic activity and volcanoes and featuring case studies from ...

Devastating earthquake in Myanmar reveals tectonic complexities, historical patterns, and potential risks for South Asia.

The 28 March magnitude 7.7 Mandalay, Burma (Myanmar) earthquake caused widespread and severe damage in Myanmar and neighboring countries such as Thailand, with more than 5,000 casualties now ...

National Key Laboratory of Deep Oil and Gas, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, China ...

In other areas, called convergent boundaries, one plate ... the study’s authors. “Unlike most volcanic hotspots that remain stationary in the mantle and create volcanic trails as tectonic ...

While the roles they play during the hydrocarbon generation and reservoir formation remain poorly understood, yet a detailed inspection of their geochemical features within the corresponding tectonic ...

Plate tectonics is relatively new, put forth in the last 30 years or so — its forerunner was the now-discarded continental drift theory. The theory states that Earth's outer shell is made up of ...

and the construction style was similar to other boundary stones that were previously recorded. 2. A study will need to be conducted to assess whether future projects would have an impact on the sites.