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May 7, 2024

Researchers Show That Slow-Moving Earthquakes Are Controlled by Rock Permeability

Earthquakes are the most dramatic and noteworthy results of tectonic plate movement. They are often destructive and deadly, or at the very least physically felt…

February 6, 2023

Scientists Detect Molten Rock Layer Hidden Under Earth’s Tectonic Plates

Scientists have discovered a new layer of partly molten rock under the Earth’s crust that might help settle a long-standing debate about how tectonic plates…

September 15, 2021

Dalziel Honored with Penrose Medal

Professor Ian W.D. Dalziel honored for pioneering discoveries about Earth’s ancient geography and its past supercontinents.

July 15, 2019

Horton and Becker to Help Lead NSF Flat Slab Research

A $2.7 million multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional NSF-Frontiers of Earth Science grant has been awarded to a team led by Carnegie’s Lara Wagner to study an active…

May 7, 2018

New Research Suggests that Dawn of Plate Tectonics Could Have Turned Earth into Snowball

A research duo from The University of Texas at Austin and UT Dallas have put forward a hypothesis that links the dawn of plate tectonics…

April 21, 2016

Volcanoes Tied to Shifts in Earth’s Climate over Millions of Years

A new study in the April 22 edition of Science reveals that volcanic activity associated with the plate-tectonic movement of continents may be responsible for…

November 23, 2015