Archive for October 29th, 2012

Why Do the Caribbean Islands Arc? Movement of Earth Modeled to 3,000 Km Depth

The Caribbean islands have been pushed east over the last 50 million years, driven by the movement of Earth’s viscous mantle against the more rooted South American continent, reveals new research by geophysicists from USC. The results, published August 19 inNature Geoscience, give us a better understanding of how continents resist the constant movement of […]