Earthquakes and volcanism occur as a result of plate tectonics. The movement of tectonic plates themselves is largely driven by the process known as subduction. The question of how new active ...

Tectonic plates: can’t live with them, can’t live without them. Their movements cause some of the world’s deadliest disasters ...

A chain of remote islands and underwater volcanoes between Alaska and Kamchatka has revealed a much older chapter in Earth's ...

On present-day Earth, plate subduction continuously modifies the chemical composition of the convecting mantle, and various mantle sources linked to these processes have been widely studied. However, ...

For hundreds of millions of years, Earth's climate has warmed and cooled with natural fluctuations in the level of carbon dioxide (CO₂) in the atmosphere. Over the past century, humans have pushed CO₂ ...

An enduring question in geology is when Earth’s tectonic plates began pushing and pulling in a process that helped the planet evolve and shaped its continents into the ones that exist today. Some ...

Researchers used small zircon crystals to unlock information about magmas and plate tectonic activity in early Earth. The research provides chemical evidence that plate tectonics was most likely ...

New research from Adelaide University has revealed that geological processes dating back billions of years are critical to locating the rare earth elements needed for modern technologies and the ...

Analogue modelling of tectonic processes employs scaled physical materials to recreate crustal and lithospheric deformation in the laboratory. By selecting analogue substances whose mechanical ...

New research reveals the Indian Plate may be tearing beneath the Himalayas, reshaping scientific understanding of mountain ...

Accreted terranes are distinct fragments of crust—often island arcs, oceanic plateaus or microcontinents—that become welded onto the margins of larger continental blocks through subduction and ...