Geodesy, the oldest science, has become an important discipline in the geosciences, in
large part by enhancing Global Positioning System (GPS) capabilities over the last 35 years …

Accurate spatial models of tectonic plates and geological terranes are important for
analyzing and interpreting a wide variety of geoscientific data and develo** compositional …

Abstract Development of renewable energy infrastructure requires critical raw materials,
such as the rare earth elements (REEs, including scandium) and niobium, and is driving …

On 10 May 2018, an unprecedented long and intense seismic crisis started offshore, east of
Mayotte, the easternmost of the Comoros volcanic islands. The population felt hundreds of …

The May 2nd and 3rd, 2023 landslide in Rwanda's Western Province caused a devastating
natural disaster, resulting in the tragic loss of 95 lives. Ngororero, Rubavu, Nyabihu, and …

Abstract East African Rift System plate geometries and surface motions are some of the least
constrained in the context of global plate motion models. In this study, we used GPS data to …

Although many continental rifts and passive margins are magmatic, some are not. This
observation prompted endmember views of the mechanisms driving continental rifting …

The Caribbean plate and its boundaries with north and south America, marked by
subduction and large intra‐arc strike‐slip faults, are a natural laboratory for the study of …

Here we describe the new Sub-Saharan Africa Geodetic Strain Rate Model v. 1.0 (SSA-
GSRM v. 1.0), which provides fundamental constraints on long-term tectonic deformation in …

The origin of the Comoros archipelago in the Mozambique channel is the subject of a
longstanding controversy. This volcanic chain has been successively interpreted as a …