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• Select Turkey sits at the crossroads of tectonic plates as well as civilisations.

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  Turkey sits at the crossroads of tectonic plates as well as civilisations.

  From:The Economist

  Feb. 11, 2023435 words Article 1340LThe earthquakes that ripped across southern Turkey and northern Syria in the small hours of February 6th were among the most devastating of this century. Within three days of the disaster, the reported death toll...
• Select Impact creator; Forming continents.

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  Impact creator; Forming continents.

  From:The Economist

  Aug. 13, 2022695 words Article 1360LHere lies history Earth may have been shaped by forces from outer space T HE EARTH is a poor archivist. The rigid tectonic plates of its outer layers are continuously in motion, sliding over one another to swallow...
• Select Groundbreaking discovery: New research into earthquakes suggests that they are both affected by and affect tectonic plates.

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  Groundbreaking discovery: New research into earthquakes suggests that they are both affected by and affect tectonic plates.

  From:Geographical (Vol. 94, Issue 6)

  June 2022448 words Article 1350LAt 3am on 17 August 1999, the earth beneath Izmit shook for 37 seconds. The largest earthquake in Turkey in the past 80 years, and one of the deadliest ever recorded, registered a magnitude of 7.6. It caused a motorway...
• Select MINING THE DEEP: The ocean floor is home to rich deposits of metals and minerals crucial to the transition to net zero. But should we use them?

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  MINING THE DEEP: The ocean floor is home to rich deposits of metals and minerals crucial to the transition to net zero. But should we use them?

  Author:Katie BurtonFrom:Geographical (Vol. 94, Issue 2)

  Feb. 20223,121 words Article 1350LAhydrothermal vent is an inhospitable place; one of searing temperatures, toxic minerals and, if you're unlucky enough to get near a black smoker, plumes of dark, sulfurous 'smoke'. They form at the most volatile...
• Select Building Ridges.

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  Building Ridges.

  Author:Eric SciglianoFrom:Natural History (Vol. 129, Issue 4)

  Apr. 2021372 words Brief article 1490LScientists have long believed that mid-ocean ridges are formed by material rising from shallow depths in Earth's mantle as tectonic plates are pulled apart by subduction at their opposite ends. Now seismologists have...
• Select A ROCKY START: Two new studies reveal that plate tectonics may have kicked off earlier than we thought.

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  A ROCKY START: Two new studies reveal that plate tectonics may have kicked off earlier than we thought.

  Author:Erik KlemettiFrom:Discover (Vol. 42, Issue 1)

  Jan-Feb 2021715 words Article 1350LTO MANY, Earth feels like a static place. The rock beneath our feet seems solid and unchanging. Yet, over billions of years, the surface of the Earth has actually changed dramatically and its interior composition...
• Select View Earth through a: Distances to celestial objects can remind us of big events on our planet.

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  View Earth through a: Distances to celestial objects can remind us of big events on our planet.

  Author:Alan GoldsteinFrom:Astronomy (Vol. 48, Issue 10)

  Oct. 20202,126 words Article 1260LUnder normal conditions, the deeper you go, the older the rock layer. But, thanks to plate tectonics and erosion, rocks from every time period can also get jumbled up and exposed on the surface. Researchers use fossils...
• Select 46 ESSAY Early Start for Our First Continents.

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  46 ESSAY Early Start for Our First Continents.

  Author:Erik KlemettiFrom:Discover (Vol. 41, Issue 1)

  Jan-Feb 2020487 words Article 1270LWe're all here thanks to continents. Among rocky planets in the solar system, only ours has masses of less-dense rock that rise above surrounding crust. Yet our planet wasn't born with them. We know that these land...
• Select Plate Tectonics Our planet's big, slow square dance.

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  Plate Tectonics Our planet's big, slow square dance.

  Author:Gemma TarlachFrom:Discover (Vol. 40, Issue 6)

  July-August 20191,755 words Article 1190LEARTH IS ACTION-PACKED. Even if there were zero life on our planet, the place would be full of birth and death, marriage, breakup and even a little dirty dancing. That's all thanks to the lithosphere, a solid layer of...
• Select Tectonic Plate Is on the Move

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  Tectonic Plate Is on the Move

  From:USA Today (Vol. 147, Issue 2889)

  June 2019336 words Brief article 1580LA few hundred miles off the Pacific Northwest coast, a small tectonic plate called the Juan de Fuca slowly is sliding under the North American continent. This subduction has created a collision zone with the potential...
• Select FUTURE EARTH: The continents are in constant motion: Tectonic plates crash together and break apart, creating new crust while old crust is pulled below the surface. The process shrinks and widens oceans, uplifts mountain ranges, and rearranges landmasses. In about 250 million years a new supercontinent, Pangaea Proxima, will form

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  FUTURE EARTH: The continents are in constant motion: Tectonic plates crash together and break apart, creating new crust while old crust is pulled below the surface. The process shrinks and widens oceans, uplifts mountain ranges, and rearranges landmasses. In about 250 million years a new supercontinent, Pangaea Proxima, will form

  Author:Matthew W. ChwastykFrom:National Geographic (Vol. 233, Issue 6)

  June 201817 words Brief article 490LContent not available due to copyright restrictions. Please Note: Illustration(s) are not available due to copyright restrictions....
• Select DARK MATTER'S shadowy effect on Earth: Earth's periodic passage through the galaxy's disk could initiate a series of events that ultimately lead to geological cataclysms and mass extinctions

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  DARK MATTER'S shadowy effect on Earth: Earth's periodic passage through the galaxy's disk could initiate a series of events that ultimately lead to geological cataclysms and mass extinctions

  Author:Michael R. RampinoFrom:Astronomy (Vol. 46, Issue 4)

  Apr. 20183,427 words Article 1420LDo geologists dream of a final theory? Most people would say that plate tectonics already serves as geology's overarching idea. The discovery of plate tectonics 50 years ago was one of the great scientific achievements...
• Select Deadly Quake

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  Deadly Quake

  Author:Jacob BatchelorFrom:Science World/Current Science (Vol. 74, Issue 4)

  Oct. 30, 2017189 words Brief article 1080LOn September 19, a massive 7.1 magnitude earthquake rocked Mexico, toppling dozens of buildings. As of press time, the quake had reportedly killed more than 300 people. It struck on the 32nd anniversary of another...
• Select Heat from Earth's core drives movement

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  Heat from Earth's core drives movement

  From:USA Today (Vol. 145, Issue 2865)

  June 2017374 words Brief article 1390LFor decades, scientists have theorized that the movement of Earth's tectonic plates is driven largely by negative buoyancy created as they cool. New research, however, shows plate dynamics are driven significantly by...
• Select Northern challenges: road tunnel excavations in Iceland are a tough test of endurance in complex geology, such as at the Vadlaheidi project

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  Northern challenges: road tunnel excavations in Iceland are a tough test of endurance in complex geology, such as at the Vadlaheidi project

  Author:Patrick ReynoldsFrom:Tunnels & Tunnelling International

  Nov. 20162,911 words Article 1300LICELAND HAS AN APPROACH to tunnelling that seeks the rock to play the prime role in road tunnel performance without, as often elsewhere, significant and heavy use of permanent concrete linings, where possible. The...
• Select Plate tectonics could grind to a halt: shifting crust just 1 stage in Earth's life cycle, study suggests

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  Plate tectonics could grind to a halt: shifting crust just 1 stage in Earth's life cycle, study suggests

  Author:Thomas SumnerFrom:Science News (Vol. 189, Issue 13)

  June 25, 2016445 words Article 1300LEarth's plate tectonics could be a passing phase. After simulating rock and heat flow throughout a planet's lifetime, scientists have proposed that plate tectonics is just one stage of a planet's life cycle. In the...
• Select Geological forces that shaped the Himalayas.

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  Geological forces that shaped the Himalayas.

  From:USA Today (Vol. 144, Issue 2853)

  June 2016417 words Article 1430LGravity data captured by satellite has allowed researchers to take a closer look at the geology deep beneath the Tibetan Plateau. The analysis, published in Nature Scientific Reports, offers some of the clearest views...
• Select Shifting ground. (nature.net)

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  Shifting ground. (nature.net)

  Author:Anderson, Robert (American businessman and engineer)From:Natural History (Vol. 111, Issue 8)

  Oct. 2002249 words Brief article Having studied geology in the early 1980s, I have trouble imagining the time, only a decade or so earlier, when plate tectonics--the unifying theory of our planet's inner workings--was not generally accepted. Perhaps...
• Select Volcanoes reveal Earth's hidden currents

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  Volcanoes reveal Earth's hidden currents

  Author:Richard MonasterskyFrom:Science News (Vol. 148, Issue 22)

  Nov. 25, 1995648 words Article Geophysicist Phillip D. Ihiger proposes that volcanic Hawaiian Islands and other island chains can be used to track the flow of the Earth's mantle. Ihiger asserts that the island chains form as the mantle current cuts...
• Select Plate loss gave chain of Pacific islands, seamounts a kink: shift in mantle flow repositioned hot magma plume responsible for Hawaiian archipelago

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  Plate loss gave chain of Pacific islands, seamounts a kink: shift in mantle flow repositioned hot magma plume responsible for Hawaiian archipelago

  Author:Thomas SumnerFrom:Science News (Vol. 187, Issue 9)

  May 2, 2015642 words Article 1440LThe disappearance of a tectonic plate into Earth's interior maybe responsible for the distinctive bend in the chain of underwater mountains and islands that includes the Hawaiian archipelago. A reconstruction of the...