Plate tectonics, the idea that the surface of the Earth is made up of plates that move apart and come back together, has been used to explain the locations of volcanoes and earthquakes since the 1960s ...
Analogue modelling of tectonic processes employs scaled physical materials to recreate crustal and lithospheric deformation in the laboratory. By selecting analogue substances whose mechanical ...
Earth's surface is a turbulent place. Mountains rise, continents merge and split, and earthquakes shake the ground. All of these processes result from plate tectonics, the movement of enormous chunks ...