Three huge tectonic plates meet at the Mendocino triple junction off the coast of northern California, and a new study ...
Scientists are uncovering a hidden and surprisingly complex earthquake zone beneath Northern California by tracking swarms of ...
By tracking swarms of very small earthquakes, seismologists are getting a new picture of the complex region where the San Andreas fault meets the Cascadia subduction zone, an area that could give rise ...
What appears to be three tectonic plates in a map may act like five pieces that move underground. Northern California ...
A hidden shard of ancient crust has been detected where California’s San Andreas system collides with the Cascadia subduction ...
Invisible earthquakes are revealing a hidden tectonic puzzle beneath California’s most dangerous fault zone.
Structural geology is the discipline devoted to the study of rock deformation and the resulting features – such as folds, faults, joints and other discontinuities – that record the history of tectonic ...
Ancient plate tectonics in the Archean period differs from modern plate tectonics in the Phanerozoic period because of the higher mantle temperatures inside the early Earth, the thicker basaltic crust ...