Plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than previously thought—and may be a big ...

Earth's continents are slowly moving across the planet's surface due to plate tectonics, culminating in regions of crustal ...

Caltech researchers introduce a new seismic technology called distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) to study earthquakes and ...

By contrast, geophysical observations, in particular from seismology, indicate that some subducted oceanic plates, known as slabs, sink all the way into the lower mantle (Fig. 1). This seems to ...