Researcher studies deformation of tectonic plates

Tuesday, November 25, 2014 - 08:31 in Earth & Climate

Sean Bemis put his hands together side by side to demonstrate two plates of the earth's crust with a smooth boundary running between them. But that boundary is not always smooth and those plates do not always sit together neatly, which makes the earth's crust a dynamic and complex surface. 

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