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 ...

Note: This post is the third in a three-part series – please see Part 1 and Part 2 from earlier today before continuing – you'll need the context. The numbering of the figures in this post continues ...

In an article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) presents a never-before-seen image of an oceanic transform fault from ...

Plate tectonics has its own version of the circle of life. Outlined by geologist J. Tuzo Wilson, the Wilson Cycle describes the birth and death of the ocean basins that separate continents.

The initiation of plate subduction on Earth may occur before 3 billion years ago or even Hadean. Subduction is the core process of plate tectonics, which gradually lead to the co-evolution of ...

An international research collaboration has harnessed supercomputing power to better understand how massive slabs of ancient ...