Asier Madarieta, a researcher in the EHU's HGI (Water Environmental Processes) group, has analyzed how the Earth's crust is being compressed and deformed in the field where Eurasia and Africa meet in ...

As bizarre as Venus appears today --- a hellish cloud-cloaked world of extraordinary surface pressures and surface temperatures not fit for man or beast --- it is also one of only two full-sized ...

The Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe, occupied by Spain and Portugal, is rotating clockwise, a recent study based on an analysis of interactions between the Eurasian and African tectonic ...

Plate tectonics can be visualized like large moving parts on the earth’s crust. The constant movement of the plates causes major stresses, and, as a result, deformations or earthquakes occur on the ...