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Hidden Faults Discovered at a Major US Earthquake Hotspot
Three huge tectonic plates meet at the Mendocino triple junction off the coast of northern California, and a new study ...
Northern California’s coast keeps you on alert, even on quiet days. Offshore, three tectonic plates meet near Humboldt County ...
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Tiny tremors expose a five-part plate puzzle beneath Northern California
What appears to be three tectonic plates in a map may act like five pieces that move underground. Northern California ...
This groundbreaking research offers a comprehensive reconstruction of Earth’s tectonic evolution from 1.8 Ga to the present, bridging critical gaps in pre-Pangean plate dynamics. By merging three ...
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Lost tectonic plate fragment found at San Andreas–Cascadia junction
A hidden shard of ancient crust has been detected where California’s San Andreas system collides with the Cascadia subduction zone, reshaping how I understand the tectonic engine of the West Coast.
A team of geoscientists from the University of Toronto is shedding new light on the century-old model of plate tectonics, which suggests the plates covering the ocean floors are rigid as they move ...
The emergence of plate tectonics is arguably Earth’s defining moment, the authors of a new Nature paper write. Out of all the planets we’ve looked at carefully, Earth is the only one that has a hard ...
The first ruptures in early Earth’s skin formed because of the weakness of rock minerals merely a millimeter wide, two scientists propose. The small minerals’ behavior created boundaries defining ...
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