Venus may not have Earth-style tectonic plates, but it’s far from geologically quiet. A new model shows its crust is ...

A reappraisal of decades-old data suggests that strange circular formations on Venus could be volcanic “rings of fire” ...

Abstract: Although subduction plays a dominant role in plate tectonics, related processes such as trench migration are not well understood. We investigate the influence of viscosity stratification and ...

Tectonics is the study of the structural geology of the Earth and other planetary bodies, and the local and regional processes that created that rock geometry. This includes the movements of the ...

Mountains rise, volcanoes spew, and Earth itself quakes as the crust constantly remakes itself in the ceaseless cycle of ...

(This is not the ‘big one’ expected further north, by the way: that is the Cascadia subduction zone while the San Andreas is a transform fault. Subduction earthquakes are a different beast.) The slip ...

May 1, 2025 — A new study has investigated the use of a new monitoring technique for early warning of a volcanic eruption. The research team compared the earthquake signals during two eruptions ...

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