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For millions of years, Earth’s moving plates have sculpted continents, carved oceans, and built massive mountain ranges. Yet ...
A shallow 6.3-magnitude earthquake left more than 30 people injured, damaged more than 800 buildings and caused widespread ...
Imagine a world where the Americas were not connected—a time when wild Pacific waters crashed against scattered islands, and ...
Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...
They represent the least well-studied of the three major plate boundaries, which include divergent boundaries, like East Africa, where plates move apart forming new crust; and convergent ...
Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American continent is dripping away in blobs of rock—and that the remnants of a tectonic plate sinking in Earth's mantle may be the ...
Some volcanoes, like those on Easter Island and Hawai’i, aren’t formed at plate boundaries. Instead, they appear in the middle of ocean plates, fueled by columns of rising hot rock called ...
Studying the tectonic forces within the Earth give rise to continents, ocean basins, mountain ranges, earthquake belts, and most volcanoes, along with the resulting deformation of geological ...
ST. CROIX COUNTY, Wis. — Charges have been filed in the death of Blue Plate Group co-owner David Burley, who was killed when investigators say another motorist struck his motorcycle after ...
We met one fan who dropped more than $150 thousand on Home Plate Club season tickets and he says he’ll do it again. Mike Sawula says he is a lifelong Tigers fan. When the franchise unveiled its ...