A global reanalysis of both short- and long-term deformation clarifies how obliquity affects strain partitioning in convergent plate boundaries.

Today, the upheavals of plate tectonics continually reshape Earth. When this began is much disputed - and we can’t fully understand how life began to thrive on our planet until we figure it out ...

Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

The subterranean aquifer lurking in the mountains contains three times as much water as Lake Mead at full capacity.

Helen Janiszewski, a graduate student at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory's department of Earth and environment sciences, will give a talk titled “Shoreline-crossing Shear-velocity Structure of ...

2011; Wang et al., 2018a), but rather that they were confined to the upper plate beneath which north-dipping subduction of the oceanic lithosphere was still active. Thus, the post-collision model is ...