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Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology ...

A project by Icelandic firm s.ap arkitektar envisions the year 2150, when buildings and cities made from lava could be a ...

Trentino is a province of collisions. Stitched to the forested underbelly of South Tyrol, just south of the Swiss and ...

Scientists found that the speed at which continents split apart directly influences how molten rock flows deep beneath ...

ting tectonic plates -- these are all signs that our planet is alive. But what is revealed deep inside the Earth surprises laymen and scientists alike: Almost 3000 kilometers below the Earth's ...

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