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Online Tool Traces Any Location on Earth Back 320 Million Years Using New Tectonic Model
Apr 29, 2026 (SPX)
The tool, hosted at Paleolatitude.org, is built on the Utrecht Paleogeography Model, a reconstruction of tectonic plate movements that incorporates, for the fir...
New lunar ridge map reveals fresh tectonic forces and moonquake risks
Feb 18, 2026 (SPX)
The study, published Dec 24, 2025, in The Planetary Science Journal, was led by researchers at the National Air and Space Museum's Center for Earth and Planetar...
Sentinel 1 maps reveal flexible crust beneath Tibetan Plateau
Feb 02, 2026 (SPX)
The study, published in the journal Science, combines one of the most extensive geodetic datasets assembled for a continental collision zone with detailed model...
Shifting seafloor carbon flows linked to ancient climate swings
Jan 21, 2026 (SPX)
The study, published in Communications Earth and Environment, reconstructs how carbon moved between the deep Earth, seafloor spreading centres, volcanic arcs an...
Cosmogenic krypton reveals ancient landscape evolution
Jan 15, 2026 (SPX)
The study focuses on cosmogenic krypton preserved in zircon minerals extracted from sediment samples obtained in several drill cores from the Eucla Basin in sou...
Ancient Tethys Ocean helped build Central Asia mountains
Jan 15, 2026 (SPX)
The study uses a big data approach built from hundreds of published thermal history models for Central Asia compiled over about 30 years. These models track whe...
Study reveals why mysterious structures within Earth's mantle hold clues to life here
Nov 20, 2025 (SPX)
Now, a study published in Nature Geoscience by Rutgers geodynamicist Yoshinori Miyazaki in combination with collaborators offers a striking new explanation for ...
Inner core of Earth found to exist in dynamic superionic phase
Nov 14, 2025 (SPX)
Earth's inner core is a sphere of iron alloy subjected to staggering pressures above 3.3 million atmospheres and temperatures near 6000 kelvin. Despite being so...
Continents peeled from beneath drive ocean volcano formation
Nov 12, 2025 (SPX)
Researchers led by the University of Southampton found that ocean islands - including Christmas Island - exhibit high levels of certain enriched elements typica...
Climate's influence reshapes East African rift dynamics
Nov 11, 2025 (SPX)
Lake Turkana in Kenya has long provided insight into our origins through fossil discoveries, but this study finds its geologic evolution equally significant. Th...
Earth's ancient tectonic shifts drove rise of complex life
Oct 28, 2025 (SPX)
"Our approach shows how plate tectonics has helped shape the habitability of the Earth," lead author Professor Dietmar Muller said. "It provides a new way to th...
Shifting landscapes shaped Madagascar's unique biodiversity
Oct 27, 2025 (SPX)
Around 90 million years ago, a second rifting episode divided Madagascar from India and the Seychelles. This event caused the island to tilt westward, resulting...
Greenland shrinks slightly and is slowly drifting northwest
Oct 22, 2025 (SPX)
Greenland is being twisted, compressed, and stretched. This happens due to plate tectonics and movements in the bedrock, caused by the large ice sheets on top m...
A new analysis could map the ancient history of Earth's surface
Oct 17, 2025 (SPX)
During earlier and later time periods, tectonic plates kept a steady pace, climate zones were normal, and the planet's magnetic field wobbled modestly around th...
Earthquake damage at deeper depths occurs long after initial activity
Oct 15, 2025 (SPX)
Geologists have often thought that this recovery period was a smooth, continuous process. But MIT research published recently in Science has found evidence that...
Mantle heterogeneity mapped at unprecedented fine scale
Sep 25, 2025 (SPX)
The study was carried out by Senior Research Scientist Shiki Machida of the Next Generation Marine Resources Research Center at Chiba Institute of Technology, P...
Early Earth may have had active plate tectonics far sooner than thought
Aug 08, 2025 (SPX)
The dominant theory holds that during the Hadean, Earth existed in a "stagnant lid" state, with a rigid, immobile crust above mantle convection but without subd...
Plate tectonics - Mineral olivine is crucial for heat transport in the mantle
Jul 11, 2025 (SPX)
The outer layer of our planet, the lithosphere, is fragmented into several rigid plates, which are drifting on top of the warm and relatively soft mantle. The c...
Ancient zircon data reveals tectonic origin of Earth's first continental crust
Jul 11, 2025 (SPX)
The study addresses a critical gap in Earth's geological timeline. "The Hadean is a key period for understanding the origin of Earth's continents," said Prof. L...
A new view on India Asia collision reshapes tectonic understanding
Apr 15, 2025 (SPX)
Their study reveals that the major collisional events between India and Asia were limited to a relatively brief interval in the Early Cenozoic, contradicting th...
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