Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 1. The majority of strong earthquakes along the Ring of Fire occur due to which process — converging plates or island formation? 2. A salt flat forms when a ...

This study is led by Prof. Yong-Fei Zheng at University of Science and Technology of China. It focuses on the development of tectonic processes along convergent plate margins through inspection of ...

From the deepest ocean trench to the tallest mountain, plate tectonics explains the features and movement of Earth's surface in the present and the past. The theory of plate tectonics was developed ...

The evolution of the continents and of continental crust is strongly dependent on the trajectory of the sedimentary cover on the descending oceanic lithosphere at arc systems. Although direct ...