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Ancient whale fossil provides exact date for East Africa's puzzling uplift
Mar 18, 2015 (SPX)
Uplift associated with the Great Rift Valley of East Africa and the environmental changes it produced have puzzled scientists for decades because the timing and...
New information may help understand earthquakes
Mar 17, 2015 (SPX)
New modeling and analyses of fault geometry in the Earth's crust by geoscientist Michele Cooke and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst are adv...
Novel mechanism proposed to explain Colorado's high elevation
Mar 11, 2015 (SPX)
No one really knows how the High Plains got so high. About 70 million years ago, eastern Colorado, southeastern Wyoming, western Kansas and western Nebraska wer...
Drilling reveals fault rock architecture in New Zealand's central alpine fault
Feb 11, 2015 (SPX)
Rocks within plate boundary scale fault zones become fragmented and altered over the earthquake cycle. They both record and influence the earthquake process. In...
Ancient deformation of the lithosphere revealed in Eastern China
Feb 03, 2015 (SPX)
Seismic investigations from the Qinling-Dabie-Sulu orogenic belt in eastern China suggest that this region was affected by extreme mantle perturbation and crust...
To speed up magma, add water
Feb 03, 2015 (SPX)
It was a bit like making a CT scan of a patient's head and finding he had very little brain or making a PET scan of a dead fish and seeing hot spots of oxygen c...
Geophysicists find the culprits behind sudden tectonic movements
Jan 21, 2015 (SPX)
Yale-led research may have solved one of the biggest mysteries in geology -- namely, why do tectonic plates beneath the Earth's surface, which normally shift ov...
Mountain system inflates temp increases at higher elevations
Jan 13, 2015 (SPX)
In a recent study, University of Montana and Montana Climate Office researcher Jared Oyler found that while the western U.S. has warmed, recently observed warmi...
Years-long 'silent quake' unleashed Fukushima tsunami
Jan 06, 2015 (AFP)
The earthquake that set off the tsunami which caused the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster was unleashed by a stealthy nine-year buildup of pressure on a plate b...
Caltech geologists discover ancient buried canyon in South Tibet
Nov 21, 2014 (SPX)
A team of researchers from Caltech and the China Earthquake Administration has discovered an ancient, deep canyon buried along the Yarlung Tsangpo River in sout...
Himalaya tectonic dam with a discharge
Nov 21, 2014 (SPX)
The Himalaya features some of the most impressive gorges on Earth that have been formed by rivers. The geologic history of the famous Tsangpo Gorge, in the east...
Geologists Shed Light on Formation of Alaska Range
Nov 20, 2014 (SPX)
Geologists in the College of Arts and Sciences have recently figured out what has caused the Alaska Range to form the way it has and why the range boasts such a...
Subtle shifts in the Earth could forecast earthquakes, tsunamis
Nov 18, 2014 (SPX)
Earthquakes and tsunamis can be giant disasters no one sees coming, but now an international team of scientists led by a University of South Florida professor h...
Study shows tectonic plates not rigid, deform horizontally in cooling process
Nov 06, 2014 (SPX)
The puzzle pieces of tectonic plates that make up the outer layer of the earth are not rigid and don't fit together as nicely as we were taught in high school. ...
Mysterious Midcontinent Rift is a Geological Hybrid
Oct 20, 2014 (SPX)
An international team of geologists has a new explanation for how the Midwest's biggest geological feature -- an ancient and giant 2,000-mile-long underground c...
Sections Of San Andreas Fault In San Francisco Area Are Locked Up
Oct 15, 2014 (SPX)
Four urban sections of the San Andreas Fault system in Northern California have stored enough energy to produce major earthquakes, according to a new study that...
Snail shells show high-rise plateau is much lower than it used to be
Sep 25, 2014 (SPX)
The Tibetan Plateau in south-central Asia, because of its size, elevation and impact on climate, is one of the world's greatest geological oddities. At about 96...
What set the Earth's plates in motion?
Sep 23, 2014 (SPX)
The mystery of what kick-started the motion of our earth's massive tectonic plates across its surface has been explained by researchers at the University of Syd...
Mantle plumes crack continents
Sep 09, 2014 (SPX)
In some parts of the Earth, material rises upwards like a column from the boundary layer of the Earth's core and the lower mantel to just below the Earth's crus...
Snails Tell of the Rise and Fall of the Tibetan Plateau
Sep 01, 2014 (SPX)
The rise of the Tibetan plateau - the largest topographic anomaly above sea level on Earth - is important for both its profound effect on climate and its reflec...
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