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

Alps), whose protoliths had formed close to the continent, were offscraped from the slab only a few Ma before continental subduction. Spatiotemporal contrasts in burial and preservation of the ...

Subduction zones are an excellent place to ask such questions because they represent an interface between major reservoirs: the ocean, the crust, and the mantle, and because subduction processes ...

Dating key tectonic events in Japan's geological history has long been often challenging due to poor microfossil preservation from intense heat due to metamorphism. Researchers tackled this by using ...

Deep beneath the Earth’s surface, a monumental geological event is unfolding. Scientists from the University of Göttingen have discovered that the Neotethys oceanic plate, once the ocean floor between ...

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With eruptions in 1998, 2011, and 2015, the volcano serves as a perfect laboratory, and experts expect an eruption by the end ...

New Full-Waveform Inversion Method Reveals Lost World Beneath the Pacific Ocean When tectonic plates collide, one of them pushes itself underneath the other. The result of this collision is something ...

A record-breaking deep earthquake registered in May 2015 offshore of Japan likely was not a tectonic event but triggered by a ...

Their research has revealed that in the present day, deep below the Earth's surface, the Neotethys oceanic plate—the ocean floor that used to be between the Arabian and Eurasian continents—is ...