New research reveals a surprising link between the ancient tectonic history of oceanic plates and their fate as they subduct ...

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics ...

The Cascadia subduction zone, where the oceanic Juan de Fuca plate descends beneath the overlying North American plate, extends 1100 km from northern California to northern Vancouver Island.

This hidden geological layer, located between 254 and 410 miles (410 and 660 kilometers) beneath the Earth’s surface, covers ...

Drewitt, J. W. E., Walter, M. J., Zhang, H., McMahon, S. C., Edwards, D., Heinen, B. J., Lord, O. T., Anzellini, S., & Kleppe, A. K. (2019). The fate of carbonate in ...

Subduction zones are the most important sites of material exchange between the crust and mantle on Earth. They are also the ...

New findings provide a greater understanding of plate subduction, or how tectonic plates ... that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics influence the ...

The Pontus oceanic plate that was reconstructed by ... An earlier study showed that a large subduction zone must have run through the western paleo-Pacific Ocean, which separated the known Pacific ...

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics ...