Latest USC Dornsife News in the Topic Thorsten Becker http://dornsife.usc.edu/news/topics/10215/thorsten-becker/ A study by Meghan Miller and Thorsten Becker of earth sciences in USC Dornsife published in Nature Geoscience shows how constantly moving continental plates reshape Earth’s surface.]]> Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:10:00 -0500 If tectonic plate collisions cause volcanic eruptions, as every fifth grader knows, why do some volcanoes erupt far from a plate boundary? A study in Nature suggests that volcanoes and mountains in the Mediterranean can grow...]]> Thu, 3 Jun 2010 12:02:00 -0500