But the eastern edge lies in the Atlantic Ocean at a divergent plate boundary. Alongside the African Plate, these two plate boundaries pull apart from each other creating some of the youngest oceanic crust on the planet. What’s the size of the 7 major tectonic plates? The 7 Major Tectonic...
The components of recent horizontal displacements of continuous GNSS stations have been determined and a map of their distribution pattern has been constructed. The absolute rotation pole in ITRF2014/IGS14 reference frame of the studied tectonic plates has been determined. The obtai...
A rapid examination of the geological map of Australia (Fig. 1) shows a vast array of lithologies and ages, spanning from the Archaean to the modern day. Australia is a very old landmass that sits on the Indo-Australian (tectonic) Plate that is currently drifting north towards Indonesia an...
On the contrary, we conclude that the complex and diverse geological history of Italy, including strong tectonic activity, shifting (micro)plates, the submergence of major parts of the current peninsula, the subsequent formation of numerous islands, as well as the Pleistocene climatic cycles (Fig....
The earthquake released energy equivalent to 100 gigatons of TNT and caused a slight change in the earth’s rotation. The Modified Mercalli scale is used to map areas of intensity, based on personal reports by victims and by inspection of the damage. It uses a scale from I through XII, ...
Mexico’s position in relation to tectonic plates.Map: Geo-Mexico.com; all rights reserved These earthquakes resulted from the Cocos Plate (see map) pushing under the North American Plate. While the epicenters were 50 km off Mexico’s Pacific coast, near the Michoacán-Guerrero border, most ...
In the Himalayas, this process can be observed as a result of the collision between the Indian and Asian continental tectonic plates, leading to the eastward sinistral transport along the Tian Shan and several other faults (Molnar and Tapponnier1975; Yeats and Lillie1991; Jacobs and Thomas2004; ...
were used to trim both ortholog clusters. Ultimately, 1,110 ortholog clusters longer than 60 bp were retained and concatenated to supermatrices by a Python script. To visualize the degree of distribution homogeneity for each locus of each species, a heat-map analysis was created using the R...
the presence or absence of aseismic ridges and seamounts on the downgoing lithospheric plate, the age contrast between the overthrust and underthrust plates, and the presence or absence of back-arc spreading, have led to a refinement in the application of plate tectonic theory to the evaluation...
Fig. 3. (a) Occurences of Cenozoic basaltic rocks relative to Upper Rhine Rift (based on the map of Sissingh, 2006); (b) Extent of the Vogelsberg Volcanic Field (after Martha et al., 2014) with location of major mantle xenolith occurrences. Variscan basement: RH – Rheno-Hercynian Zone...