Tectonic

The Pilbara craton in Western Australia is made up of some rocks that are 3.5 billion years old Elizabeth Czitronyi…

Magma Pulses Are Tearing Africa Apart Chemical fingerprints from volcanic rock offer hints of what’s happening in the mantle below…

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these…

Tectonic Plates Can ‘Infect’ One Another with Earth-Shaking Subduction Zones Evidence from Earth’s deep past suggests dramatic subduction zones can…