A unique rock formation in China holds clues that tectonic plates subducted, or went underneath other plates, during the Archean eon (4 billion to 2.5 billion years ago), just as they do nowadays, a ...

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 ...

Methane (CH 4), the chief constituent of natural gas, is one of the most widely used “clean” fuels. Although methane is usually considered to originate from organic matter, recently, more and more ...