Breakthrough Achieved in Explaining Why Tectonic Plates Move the Way They Do.

 A team of researchers including Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego geophysicist Dave Stegman has developed a new theory to explain the global motions of tectonic plates on the earth's surface.Read full topic....click here

(The sinking of the Farallon plate beneath the North American continent over 30 million years created the geologic feature known as the Basin and Range Province, an area of the western United States that encompasses much of Nevada, seen here in a topographic model. (Credit: Mike Sandiford/University of Melbourne)