The Pacific Northwest sits atop one of the most dangerous fault systems on Earth, yet daily life from Seattle to Portland ...

The conceptual sketch of multiple Wilson cycles for a series of subduction‐collision‐subduction processes during the evolution of Tethyan realm during the Phanerozoic, with the final collision between ...

A research team led by Prof. Ding Lin from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has systematically explained the differential uplift process and its related ...

Strange features of a collision point between pieces of Earth's crust are evidence that the structure may be nearing its end, new analysis suggests. A careful analysis of the complex boundary where ...

Our planet's lithosphere is broken into several tectonic plates. Their configuration is ever-shifting, as supercontinents are assembled and broken up, and oceans form, grow, and then start to close in ...

Plate tectonics is founded in the late 1960s, and it concerns the distribution and movements of plates, the upper most layer of the Earth. Plate movements not only control the distributions of the ...

One of the challenges of studying plate tectonics is that most of the interesting action takes place in locations that are staggeringly inconvenient, residing kilometers below the surfaces of the ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate slides beneath another, produce the most devastating seismic, volcanic, and landslide hazards on the planet. A new report presents an ambitious plan to make ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The area of the Pacific Northwest I live in ...