Africa on the ropes: a new tectonic plate is forming in the south of the continent

Geologists have been observing for years a 2,500 km 'zone of weakness' stretching from Tanzania to Namibia, rich in resources ...
Nature

Fragmentation of active continental plate margins owing to the buoyancy of the mantle wedge

The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. The experiments presented in Figs 1 and 2 show that volume forces acting on a Cordillera orogen may be strong enough to promote ...
ECOticias.com

Not Africa — This continent is splitting into two and forming a huge rift

The tectonic plate beneath Tibet shows groundbreaking geological development through research findings depicting a split into two parts, producing a large rift structure. Research findings about the ...
Indiatimes

Earth’s tectonic plate is cracking beneath Cascadia Subduction Zone - scientists spot a ‘slow-motion train wreck’

A groundbreaking study in Science Advances reveals that Earth's tectonic plates are breaking apart under the Cascadia subduction zone. Geologists from Louisiana State University and the Lamont-Doherty ...