The mantle processes driving the dripping can influence how tectonic plates evolve ... This computer model, which uses seismic data collected by the EarthScope project, revealed new details ...

"Our new model for tectonic plates better explains the spatial distribution of 90 percent of earthquakes and 80 percent of volcanoes from the past two million years whereas existing models only ...

During his MSc project he used a sophisticated biogeochemical model to make the first quantification ... rise in oxygen levels due to changes in plate tectonic activity, but that rise in oxygen ...

Long-lost remnants of tectonic plates ... which one tectonic plate is forced beneath another as they converge at a plate boundary—anywhere near this region. A computer model visualization ...

David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Video showing the movement of Earth’s tectonic plates over the past billion years. Plate tectonics is a scientific theory ...

SO MUCH for slowing down as you age. Earth’s tectonic plates are moving faster now than at any point in the last 2 billion years, according to the latest study of plate movements. But the result ...

Yale geophysicists reported that Earth’s ever-shifting, underground network of tectonic plates was firmly in place more than ... The researchers said their model looked at the atmospheric argon that ...

Bercovici's model suggests that early subduction created weak spots in Earth's crust that are now plate boundaries. Plate tectonics is defined by the idea that strong plates are separated by weak ...