The research supports the argument that Venus’ tectonics are active today, he says. What’s more, the demonstrated ability of computer simulations to predict what spacecraft may observe will be a boon ...

Educators of all types and backgrounds are encouraged to attend the special full-day Ripple Effect Environmental Literacy ...

Certain parts of South Africa are experiencing a phenomenon where its land is rising by up to two millimeters annually.

Tectonics is the study of the structural geology of the Earth and other planetary bodies, and the local and regional processes that created that rock geometry. This includes the movements of the ...

The 50-kilometer-wide seamount contains three dormant volcanoes, the floor of which drops more than two kilometers below the ...

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Compositional signatures of subducted crust in the deep-mantle sources of ocean island volcanoes in the Atlantic Ocean but not the Pacific reveal that plate motions on Earth's surface influence the ...

A reappraisal of decades-old data suggests that strange circular formations on Venus could be volcanic “rings of fire” ...

they may have existed when the planet was young and before plate tectonics were established. He said that using both gravity data and topography data, scientists were able to get a better idea of ...

First detected in 2015, gravitational waves may not have had a direct hand in human evolution, but it certainly helped set ...

The course provides an overview of the Earth's tectonic evolution in the context of plate tectonics. The first part of the course consists of lectures giving a systematic description of geological ...