Geoscientists from the University of Toronto have made a breakthrough discovery that adds new dimensions to the theory of plate tectonics. Their research, published in Geophysical Research Letters, ...

Researchers discovered new undersea faults on the Pacific plate, some of which are thousands of meters below the surface of the ocean and hundreds of kilometers long. Credit: NOAA/NASA GOES Project A ...

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Take yourself back to fifth-grade science for a second. You might have learned that earthquakes are caused by the sudden movement of big, underground sheets of rock, called tectonic plates. Your ...

A study by Brown researchers finds that changes in tectonic plate thickness across the Denali Fault in Alaska impact where it is located, shedding light on how major faults and earthquakes occur.

A. Most earthquakes occur when a geological fault, a fracture within the Earth’s crust, slips and releases energy. Individual faults, some of which form the tectonic plate boundaries, build up strain ...

A study finds that an ancient mountain belt formed 500-900 million years ago across the Arabian-Nubian Shield and Sahara Desert before the final collision of east and west Gondwana-Land. The origins ...