The dance of the continents has been reshaping Earth for billions of years, creating the landscapes we walk on today.

The tiny Juan de Fuca plate is largely responsible for the volcanoes that dot the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The plates make up Earth's outer shell, called the lithosphere. (This includes ...

For the first time in history, scientists have observed the rupture of a tectonic plate in a subduction zone in real time.

Today's 6.2 quake was likely the effect of contorting deep within one of the two tectonic plates New Zealand straddles. GeoNet recorded the quake about 25km south-west of Taumarunui – but what ...

Ten years of GPS data taken from New Zealand's Southern Alps have helped scientists determine how fast this mountain range is rising. The data are the first to record the vertical movement of a ...

We derive some residual-type a posteriori error estimates for the local C⁰ discontinuous Galerkin (LCDG) approximations ([31]) of the Kirchhoff bending plate ...

Vacuum forming is a handy thing to be able to do, and [3DSage] demonstrates how to do a bare-bones system that can form anything smaller than a dinner plate with little more than a 3D printed fitting ...