A hot blob currently beneath the Appalachians may have peeled off from Greenland around 80 million years ago and moved to ...

The Pacific Northwest boasts an extensive network of more than 600 seismic monitoring stations that help researchers track ...

An expert has said that the epicentre of the quake is located in an area responsible for 90% of the world's earthquakes.

Intraplate tectonic settings, located far from active plate margins, have historically been considered stable. However, infrequent but destructive ...

The Petrified Forest holds trees buried by volcanoes 50 million years ago, while Yankee Jim features some of the oldest ...

This Collection invites original research on plate tectonics modelling, including multidisciplinary and integrative studies.

A new method integrates Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) with conventional ground geodetic networks, taking us closer to high-resolution mapping of plate motions.

Tectonics articles from across Nature Portfolio Tectonics is the study of the structural geology of the Earth and other planetary bodies, and the local and regional processes that created that ...

We deal with the Kirchhoff-Love model for a bending thin plate with physical boundary conditions. We propose here a new mixed formulation, based on a decomposition of the bending moment. For its ...