Figure 1: Galileo image mosaic of mountains on Io. Mountain formation on Io is assumed to occur when the subsidence and thermoelastic stresses exceed the failure strength of the lithosphere, but the ...

Tectonic plates, big sections of Earth's crust and blocks underneath them, are constantly moving. The areas where these sections meet and interact are called faults. They appear as scars on the ...

200 million years of geological evolution of a fault in Earth’s crust has recently been dated. These new findings may be used to shed light on poorly understood pathways for methane release from the ...