The tiny Juan de Fuca plate is largely responsible for the volcanoes that dot the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The plates make up Earth's outer shell, called the lithosphere. (This includes ...

The dance of the continents has been reshaping Earth for billions of years, creating the landscapes we walk on today.

A 6.3-magnitude quake near Mazar-e Sharif exposed Afghanistan's seismic threat. Experts explained how the collision of the ...

A careful analysis of the complex boundary where four tectonic plates meet reveals that one of the slabs is tearing itself ...

If you think about mountain ranges like the Andes or the Himalayas, you can come up with multiple factors that must affect their size and shape. There’s the collision of tectonic plates that squeezes ...

A man works his way through the rubble of buildings in Marrakesh, Morocco, after a magnitude 6.8 earthquake on Sept. 8, 2023. Fadel Senna/AFP via Getty Images Earthquakes, large and small, happen ...

Acclaimed Brown University professor Karen Fischer presented her research regarding North American Plate boundaries in STEPS 101 Friday to an intrigued audience of undergraduates, graduate students ...

Temporal evolution for the viscosity (upper row) and compositional (lower row) field of the 3D reference case showing LLSVP-sourced plume-induced subduction initiation. (a–) Model snapshots at 0 Myr ...

Build mountains. Trigger volcanoes. Create new sea floor. You now have the power to change the landscape with the slightest push of your mouse. Four types of plate tectonic activity are demonstrated ...

Table 1 Shortening data, T e estimates, age of collision and age of foreland lithosphere. Full size table The distribution of shortening estimated for mountain ranges that have reached a steady-state ...