Seismology Probing the Australian-Pacific Plate Boundary (Pt 8: Sailing Home) Unlike Sirens, who drew sailors to the rocks by their enchanted singing, causing their ships to sink, Nereids – the daughters of Doris and Nereus, the old man of the sea
Tectonics How Earth's continents became twisted and contorted over millions of years Figure: Photographed on Kangaroo Island, this rock – called a ‘zebra schist’ – deformed from flat-lying marine sediments through being stressed by a continental collision over 500 million years ago. Dietmar Muller
Geophysics The secret to starting subduction is ... subduction A new study by an international team of researchers offers new clues about where and how subduction starts on Earth, the process behind our most deadly volcanic eruptions.
