This study is led by Prof. Yong-Fei Zheng at University of Science and Technology of China. It focuses on the development of tectonic processes along convergent plate margins through inspection of ...

Jupiter's icy moon Europa is criss-crossed by extensional features. A tectonic reconstruction suggests that Europa's extension is balanced by subduction — if so, Earth may not be the only planetary ...

New crust is continually being pushed away from divergent boundaries (where sea-floor spreading occurs), increasing Earth's surface. But the Earth isn't getting any bigger. What happens, then, to keep ...

With the August 23, 2011 earthquake on the East coast of the United States, the internet has been a-buzz. We had quite the interesting discussions, behind closed doors, here at GeekMom. GeekMoms ...

The puzzle pieces of Earth's lithosphere are always in motion, slamming against each other and grinding past one another. Earth is action-packed. Even if there were zero life on our planet, the place ...

My regular readers are going to need some context and backstory to what motivated writing this series of posts. It's a three-part series -- here is Part 2 and Part 3. I recently had an exchange with ...

Before I retired, I would often take school groups on tours of the HSU Geology Department’s seismograph. We’d start out in front of the drum on display in Van Matre Hall and talk about how ...