The team produced three new geological models: a plate model, a province model and an orogeny model. "There are 26 orogenies—the process of mountain formation—that have left an imprint on the ...

This Collection invites original research on plate tectonics modelling, including multidisciplinary and integrative studies. We will consider contributions to underlying theoretical and ...

Geoscientists have discovered a new process in plate tectonics ... deep ocean trenches, at the boundaries where the plates collide. Now, using supercomputer modelling, the researchers show that ...

These new findings provide important insight into slip behavior at a shallow plate boundary and will improve understanding and modeling of subduction megathrust earthquakes and tsunamis in the future.

In the globe to the right, the blue is a sinking area on the Earth's surface, the beginnings of a plate boundary. "The idea of our model is that if I deform a rock, I'll actually make the grains ...

Mexico’s western coast is a tectonic plate boundary, where the oceanic plate ... Seismologists can model the process backward from the measured surface movement and figure out how the fault ...