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Photo of the Apennine Mountains in Italy.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Topography Along the Apennines Reflects Subduction Dynamics

by Duna Roda-Boluda 15 March 202313 March 2023

Topography and exhumation vary strongly along the Apennines, reflecting the geometry of the Moho and different geodynamic mechanisms.

A vineyard growing on a mountain slope with several other mountains visible in the background
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Scientists Decipher the Seismic Dance of the Southern Alps

by Morgan Rehnberg 20 January 202320 January 2023

Most of the Alps are considered tectonically dead, but according to new research, the southeastern region—home to prosecco wine—is very much alive.

白雪覆盖的山峰排列在青藏高原的南部边缘。
Posted inResearch Spotlights

研究揭示尼泊尔西部喜马拉雅港湾状地形的形成

by Sarah Derouin 19 October 202219 October 2022

研究人员通过热运动学研究发现,沿着板块汇聚界面大型逆冲断层在中下部地壳深处的地壳物质堆叠塑造了高原的生长和区域水系的发育。

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A Really Big (Global) Splash at Chicxulub

by Tom Parsons 12 October 202213 October 2022

What caused a tsunami 30,000 times more powerful than the December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami? A new modeling study says this was one of the results from the Cretaceous Chicxulub asteroid impact.

Two block diagrams that show how the George Sound shear zone (GSSZ) grew through the crust in space and time.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Feedbacks Between Deformation and Magmatism as Shear Zones Grow

by Alexis Ault 29 September 202228 September 2022

New research reveals how the presence and absence of magmatism governs how shear zones initiate, grow, and reactivate to connect lower and upper crustal deformation.

Snow-covered peaks line the southern edge of the Tibetan plateau.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Uncovering the Formation of the Western Nepal Embayment

by Sarah Derouin 24 August 202219 October 2022

Using thermokinematics, researchers have found that crustal accretion along the megathrust at mid-lower crustal depths shapes plateau growth and regional drainage development.

Yosemite National Park ecosystem featuring a stream, trees, and snow-covered hillslope.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

What Drives Hillslope Connectivity?

by Aaron Sidder 23 August 202223 August 2022

Hillslopes play a critical role in linking ecosystems. Understanding the forces that drive their connections can help us to better understand adaptation in the face of climate change.

Posted inResearch Spotlights

俯冲起始可能取决于构造板块的历史

by David Shultz 28 July 20215 October 2022

对Puyssegur海沟的最新地震成像研究旨在解决板块构造的一个最主要问题。

An arc-shaped coseismic shear belt associated with the 2018 Mw 4.9 earthquake at Etna volcano shows up on both mapping and InSAR.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Volcano—Tectonic Interactions at Etna

by J. Hubbard 6 July 202127 October 2021

Mapping of a 2018 earthquake that ruptured the eastern flank of Mount Etna shows that it occurred on a tectonic lineament that predates the volcano, and the kinematics match nearby tectonic domains.

A photo of Renato Funiciello in the Dolomites Mountains of the Alps in 2005.
Posted inEditors' Vox

Renato Funiciello, an Inspiration to Modern Geology in Italy

by M. Meghraoui 24 June 20219 November 2022

A special collection in Tectonics on geodynamics in the Mediterranean region celebrates the life and work of the renowned Italian geologist Renato Funiciello.

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