Lab study suggests longer waves fracture floating ice sheets at lower stress

When waves are moving across ice-covered seas, they can cause sheets of ice to bend and ultimately break. Understanding the ...

King's Trough: How a shifting plate boundary and hot mantle material shaped an Atlantic mega-canyon

The King's Trough Complex is a several-hundred-kilometer-long, canyon-like system of trenches on the North Atlantic seafloor.
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Scientists say bizarre Rocky Mountains origin is finally exposed

The Rocky Mountains have always looked like a geological non sequitur, a towering spine of peaks sitting far from the ...

Do recent earthquakes make ‘Big One’ more likely? What scientists say

Over the last few days, the Coachella Valley has experienced more than 20 earthquakes, causing concern among some residents.
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The Iberian Peninsula is rotating clockwise

Spain and Portugal are taking a turn. The Iberian Peninsula sits on a boundary between two large tectonic plates that are being stressed by a variety of forces, and because of this, the peninsula is ...
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Scientists Say the Iberian Peninsula Is Slowly Rotating Clockwise Beneath Europe

The Iberian Peninsula — that massive piece of Europe holding Spain and Portugal — is not the static landmass we imagine. It’s rotating clockwise at a pace too small for humans to feel, yet large ...
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Fragment of lost tectonic plate discovered where San Andreas and Cascadia faults meet

A hidden chunk of an ancient tectonic plate is stuck to the Pacific Ocean floor and sliding under North America, complicating earthquake risk at the Cascadia subduction zone.