Measuring the movement of defined points on the earth's surface to better understand the stresses and strains affecting the crust and upper mantle.

Cratons are believed to be the longest-lived regions of the Earth, but a new study shows how dynamic processes can cause their eventual disintegration.

That's about as fast as your fingernails grow! Because Earth is spherical, its tectonic or lithospheric plates are fractured into dozens of curved sections. (Imagine it like a cracked egg shell.) ...

From time to time, when Earth's tectonic plates shift, the planet emits a long, slow belch of carbon dioxide. In a new modeling study published in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, R. Dietmar ...

In 2014, scientists studied three cratons that’d lost part of their lithospheric root and found how geologic processes could ...

克拉通是指古老的、稳定的大陆块体，它主要由古代的结晶基底构成，形成的年代大多是在30多亿年前。其特点是具有较冷的地温梯度、贫铁贫水且存在多种交代变质作用。全球的克拉通在60-160 ...

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And some processes suggest that this number will change. The fact is that the archipelago is located at the junction of three lithospheric plates: Nazca, Cocos and Pacific. The plates are in constant ...