This study is led by Dr. Jian Lin (Southern University of Science and Technology) and Dr. Fan Zhang (South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences). “Water is crucial to ...

Our planet's lithosphere is broken into several tectonic plates. Their configuration is ever-shifting, as supercontinents are assembled and broken up, and oceans form, grow, and then start to close in ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

Around 510 million years ago, after a major gap in the geologic record, the world flooded. This gap, known as the Great Unconformity, starts at different ages in different places, but it always ...

An international research collaboration has harnessed supercomputing power to better understand how massive slabs of ancient ocean floors are shaped as they sink hundreds of kilometers below Earth's ...

This study links tectonic geometry and mineralogy to aftershock behavior, revealing how hydrous minerals influence seismic activity in subduction zones.

The Japan Trench is located on the "Pacific Ring of Fire," a region of special interest in earthquake and deep-water research. "It is here that oceanic plates bend, form ultra-deep-water trenches and ...

The Pontus oceanic plate that was reconstructed by Suzanna van de Lagemaat: its location in the paleo-Pacific ocean 120 million years ago, and its present relicts. An earlier study showed that a large ...

A research paper claims that the Atlantic Ocean is being invaded and that with the way things are going, we could end up with an Atlantic "Ring of Fire" similar to the well-known Pacific Ring of Fire.