I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our ...

Sedimentary rocks originally deposited on the oceanic plate are scraped off and accreted to the western edge of the continent; the initiation of this process is indicated by the deformation front in ...

The Earth's surface is constantly reshaped by the movement of tectonic plates, which make up the continental crust on which ...

However, there is no evidence of plate subduction—a geological process in which one tectonic plate is forced beneath another as they converge at a plate boundary—anywhere near this region.

The LLSVPs are found in what scientists refer to as "slab graveyards," where tectonic plates sink through a process called ...

Researchers found that an inactive subduction zone under the Strait of Gibraltar may begin migrating into the Atlantic Ocean, commencing the shrinking process. The zone also brings a higher risk ...

Finally, using their geodynamic mantle-flow model, they simulated the full extent of the subduction process and validated the ...

But in the ancient past, large plates have since disappeared into Earth's mantle by means of 'subduction'. This is the geologic process in which one edge of one plate is forced below the edge of ...

Megathrust earthquakes occur when stress at subduction zones is released, causing significant plate slippage. These events disrupt long-term tectonic changes, complicating modeling efforts.

Amid Earth’s mobile tectonic plates, subduction zones arise as regions of intense geological activity and concentrate minerals into ore deposits like gold.