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What appears to be such a pleasant meeting-place of the well-known rifts, in the Northern part of California, is proving to ...

What appears to be three tectonic plates in a map may act like five pieces that move underground. Northern California ...

The model also proved the theorized existence of the Pioneer fragment, a remnant of the ancient Farrallon plate that used to traverse the California coastline that has not all but disappeared. This ...

Three huge tectonic plates meet at the Mendocino triple junction off the coast of northern California, and a new study ...

New research reveals that Central Asia’s rugged terrain was molded by the vanished Tethys Ocean, millions of years before the Himalayas even rose.

By tracking swarms of very small earthquakes, seismologists are getting a new picture of the complex region where the San ...

New research challenges conventional wisdom by demonstrating that mid-ocean ridges and continental rifts, not volcanic eruptions, played the central role in atmospheric carbon swings and long-term ...

Carbon released from Earth's spreading tectonic plates, not volcanoes, may have triggered major transitions between ancient ...

The Iberian Peninsula is undergoing a slow but measurable clockwise rotation, driven by tectonic forces far beneath the surface.