TECTONICS

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World's longest continental volcano chain in Australia
Sep 15, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists have discovered the world's longest known chain of continental volcanoes, running 2,000 kilometres across Australia, from the Whitsundays in North Qu...
Is old rock really as 'solid as a rock'
Sep 09, 2015 (SPX)
In the course of billions of years continents break up, drift apart, and are pushed back together again. The cores of continents are, however, geologically extr...
California rising
Sep 07, 2015 (SPX)
For millions of years, the Pacific and North American plates have been sliding past - and crashing into - one another. This ongoing conflict creates uplift, the...
Volcanic eruptions: Properties of magma influence forecasts
Sep 03, 2015 (SPX)
Many volcanoes are located in densely settled areas. Every time one of these becomes active, large populations are put at risk. Hence, one of the primary goals ...
Scientists discover mechanism behind 'strange' earthquakes
Aug 31, 2015 (SPX)
It's not a huge mystery why Los Angeles experiences earthquakes. The city sits near a boundary between two tectonic plates - they shift, we shake. But what abou...
Cascadia initiative to monitor Northwest Pacific seismic risks
Aug 19, 2015 (SPX)
Early data coming in from a massive, four-year deployment of seismometers onshore and offshore in the Pacific Northwest are giving scientists a clearer picture ...
How do continents break up?
Aug 14, 2015 (SPX)
When the western part of the super-continent Gondwana broke up around 130 Million years ago, today's Africa and South-America started to separate and the South ...
Risk of west Nepal quake still high: researchers
Aug 06, 2015 (AFP)
Large quakes in Nepal this year only partially relieved stress on a major Himalayan fault line, and chances for a big tremor are as high as before, researchers ...
Rocks provide clues for unearthing underground fault connections
Aug 05, 2015 (SPX)
Stacked in gravity-defying arrangements in the western San Bernardino Mountains, near the San Andreas Fault, granite boulders that should have been toppled by e...
Meeting face-to-face with El Capitan
Jul 28, 2015 (SPX)
Granitic rocks make up much of Earth's continental crust and many of the planet's most iconic landscapes. However, granite's formation is poorly understood beca...
Research redefines the properties of faults when rock melts
Jul 01, 2015 (SPX)
Geoscientists at the University of Liverpool have used friction experiments to investigate the processes of fault slip. Fault slip occurs in many natural enviro...
Understanding subduction zone earthquakes
Jun 28, 2015 (SPX)
The 26 December 2004 Mw ~9.2 Indian Ocean earthquake (also known as the Sumatra-Andaman or Aceh-Andaman earthquake), which generated massive, destructive tsunam...
Uplifted island
Jun 25, 2015 (SPX)
The island Isla Santa Maria in the south of central Chile is the document of a complete seismic cycle. Charles Darwin and his captain Robert Fitzroy witnessed t...
China says Nepal quake moved Everest southwest
Jun 16, 2015 (AFP)
A devastating earthquake that hit Nepal in April moved Mount Everest three centimetres (just over an inch) to the southwest, but did not change its height, acco...
Geological game changer
Jun 15, 2015 (SPX)
A long-standing fact widely accepted among the scientific community has been recently refuted, which now has major implications on our understanding of how Eart...
Quake-hit Nepal wants experts to assess Everest safety
Jun 11, 2015 (AFP)
Tourism-dependent Nepal will call in international experts to examine popular trekking routes -- including in the quake-hit Everest region -- and declare them s...
When modern Eurasia was born
Jun 11, 2015 (SPX)
Was it a massive migration? Or was it rather a slow and persistent seeping of people, items and ideas that laid the foundation for the demographic map of Europe...
Human and natural systems explain change on the Mongolian Plateau
Jun 09, 2015 (SPX)
Human influence on the natural world is widely acknowledged to have reached an unprecedented scale. Likewise, changes in natural systems have the potential to a...
Reading the Earth's LIPS
Jun 05, 2015 (SPX)
Lip reading normally involves deciphering speech patterns, movements, gestures and expressions just by watching a person speak. Planet Earth has LIPS, too - the...
Study to determine mechanism associated with fault weakening
May 22, 2015 (SPX)
A University of Oklahoma structural geologist and collaborators are studying earthquake instability and the mechanisms associated with fault weakening during sl...
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