Earthquakes, volcanoes and movement of the Earth’s tectonic plates influence coral diversity patterns more than short-term environmental changes, a new study by Australian researchers has found. The study…
Articles on Plate tectonics
Displaying 81 - 87 of 87 articles
Exactly 100 years ago, German geophysicist Alfred Wegener presented his theory of continental drift – the idea that the continents of Earth are gradually drifting apart. And now we have some compelling…
Significant changes in the motion of Earth’s tectonic plates has been found to occur less frequently than was previously…
On an exploratory mission to discover more about the Australian and Pacific tectonic plates, underwater volcanoes and mineral-laden…
Zircon crystals from ancient rocks in Greenland suggest the movement of plate tectonics to have occurred 3.2 billion years…
Geological features of the Great Rift Valley, birthplace of the human species, may be much older than previously believed…
Scientists have used gravitational measurements from the low-flying Goce satellite to map the boundary between the earth’s…
Top contributors
-
Professor of Earthquake Science, The University of Melbourne
-
Earthquake Scientist, Monash University
-
Professor of Geology, West Virginia University
-
ARC DECRA Fellow, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney
-
Emeritus Strategic Professor in Palaeontology, Flinders University
-
Professor of Geology, Adelaide University
-
Associate Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis
-
Associate Professor in Geophysics, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
-
Harold T. Stearns Professor of Earth Science, Wesleyan University
-
Associate professor, University of Tasmania
-
Honorary Fellow in Structural Geology and Tectonics, The University of Melbourne
-
Honorary researcher, The University of Melbourne
-
Professor of Geophysics, University of Sydney
-
Lecturer in Geoscience, Queensland University of Technology
-
Associate Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee