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A close-up image of bladed barite crystals in the Mapepe Formation in the Barberton Greenstone Belt of South Africa. Credit: Desiree Roerdink

New research uncovers continental crust emerged 500 million years earlier than thought

May 7, 2021

$Piecing together the Alaska coastline’s fractured volcanic activity$

Piecing together the Alaska coastline’s fractured volcanic activity

Final model for the East African Rift System. Hashed lines indicate newly discovered broad deforming zone. Arrows represent predicted tectonic plate motions. ABFZ—Andrew Bain Fracture Zone; IFZ—Indomed Fracture Zone; RSZ—Ranotsara shear zone. Figure created by D.S. Stamps.

East African Rift System is slowly breaking away, with Madagascar splitting into pieces

Central Alps of Switzerland

Formation of the Alps: Detaching and uplifting, not bulldozing

Proposed model for deep-carbon transport along a cratonic boundary in the EARS study region.

Scientists decipher the role of carbon and the break-up of continents

New Theory On Formation of Oldest Continents

March 19, 2012

When Continents Collide: New Twist to 50-Million-Year-Old Tale

March 1, 2012

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