For the first time, ETH scientists have successfully recreated the formation of continental crust in the Archean using a computer simulation. The model helps scientists to better understand processes ...

A Dutch mathematician has investigated probability calculations in mathematical sandpile models. Although the rules of the model are simple, the wide-ranging behavior that emerges from these is ...

Physicists in the US have proven that wax is an excellent model of the ocean floors. Using a tub of wax, geophysicists at Cornell and Columbia have produced a predictive model of tectonic microplates ...

The thick outer crust of Earth has zillions of wafer-like pieces interlocked and held together like a cork trapping the molten hot mantle. The blizzard-like forces agitating inside the mantle continue ...

The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. This study uses three-dimensional continental collision models to investigate the role of crustal heterogeneity in forming the ...