News tagged with tectonic forces
Scientists reveal Southern California's tectonic plates in detail
Rifting is one of the fundamental geological forces that have shaped our planet. Were it not for the stretching of continents and the oceans that filled those newly created basins, Earth would be a far different ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 06, 2011 |
5 / 5 (3) |
0
|
Scientists warn of more quake danger in N.Z.
New Zealand's earthquake-devastated Canterbury region faces an almost one-in-four chance of another powerful tremor in the next 12 months, government scientists said Tuesday.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 31, 2011 |
4 / 5 (1) |
0
Mars Express sees deep fractures on Mars
Newly released images from ESA's Mars Express show Nili Fossae, a system of deep fractures around the giant Isidis impact basin. Some of these incisions into the martian crust are up to 500 m deep and probably ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 06, 2011 |
5 / 5 (3) |
7
|
Mars's mysterious elongated crater
(PhysOrg.com) -- Orcus Patera is an enigmatic elliptical depression near Mars's equator, in the eastern hemisphere of the planet. Located between the volcanoes of Elysium Mons and Olympus Mons, its formation ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 27, 2010 |
4.6 / 5 (24) |
6
|
Underground Forces: Deformation Processes in Gravel Deposits
Deformation bands in the gravel layers of the Eisenstadt-Sopron Basin form as a result of heterogeneous displacement in the surrounding sediment. This is caused by gradients in the deformation intensity, which ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 21, 2010 |
3 / 5 (1) |
1
Groovy Hills Rising from Titan Surface
(PhysOrg.com) -- Hills with a wrinkly radial pattern stand out in a new radar image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Dec. 28, 2009.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 25, 2010 |
4.6 / 5 (14) |
0
|
A glimpse at the Earth's crust deep below the Atlantic
Long-term variations in volcanism help explain the birth, evolution and death of striking geological features called oceanic core complexes on the ocean floor, says geologist Dr Bram Murton of the National ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 12, 2009 |
5 / 5 (3) |
0
Humans causing erosion comparable to world's largest rivers and glaciers
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study finds that large-scale farming projects can erode the Earth's surface at rates comparable to those of the world's largest rivers and glaciers.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 02, 2009 |
2 / 5 (2) |
1
MESSENGER discovers an unusual impact basin on Mercury
A previously unknown, large impact basin has been discovered by the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft during its second flyby of Mercury in October 2008. The impact basin, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 30, 2009 |
4.8 / 5 (4) |
0
