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What appears to be such a pleasant meeting-place of the well-known rifts, in the Northern part of California, is proving to ...

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What appears to be three tectonic plates in a map may act like five pieces that move underground. Northern California ...

The model also proved the theorized existence of the Pioneer fragment, a remnant of the ancient Farrallon plate that used to traverse the California coastline that has not all but disappeared. This ...

Salameh, E. and Tarawneh, A. (2026) Tectonic Structures and Their Consequential Nontectonic Deformations —The Case of the ...

A switch from a humid to a dry climate has led the Eastern African Rift Zone to pull apart more freely, new research finds.

By tracking swarms of very small earthquakes, seismologists are getting a new picture of the complex region where the San ...

New research challenges conventional wisdom by demonstrating that mid-ocean ridges and continental rifts, not volcanic ...

Carbon released from Earth's spreading tectonic plates, not volcanoes, may have triggered major transitions between ancient ...

Scientists are uncovering a hidden and surprisingly complex earthquake zone beneath Northern California by tracking swarms of ...

Three of the great tectonic plates that make up the Earth’s crust meet at the Mendocino Triple Junction, off the Humboldt ...