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Intensified Neogene uplift of the Tibetan Plateau, acting through tectonic-climatic coupling, fundamentally reconfigured large-river systems across East and South Asia. Whereas previous studies have ...

A powerful swarm of earthquakes in January suggested one of Iceland’s giant “ice volcanoes” may be awakening after a decade of slumber. In the months that followed, more earthquakes have rocked the ...

Subduction zones represent the most vigorous sites of plate recycling on Earth, where dense oceanic lithosphere sinks into the mantle under the force of its own negative buoyancy. The interplay ...

The Oman Mountains host the Samail Ophiolite, the world’s most complete section of oceanic crust and upper mantle emplaced onto a continental margin. Formed in the mid-Cretaceous as part of the ...

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