The results offer new perspectives on the behavior of subduction zones, particularly in regions where significant seismic events occur due to slab dehydration and other related processes.

Unlike standard subduction, in which a tectonic plate descends beneath another plate into Earth, flat slab subduction is a process in which a tectonic plate descends to depths of about 30 to 60 ...

But how do they form and why are they concentrated there? (A) Diagram of a subduction zone illustrating the transfer of gold and sulfur from the subducting slab through the mantle to the upper crust ...

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

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.

Slab pull occurs where older, denser tectonic plates sink into the mantle at subduction zones. As these older sections of plates sink, newer and less dense sections of plate are pulled along behind.

Microphotograph of amphibole (brown) and plagioclase (grey-white) minerals present in an adakitic rock from the western Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt (TMVB) Focus: occurence of adakite rocks and their ...

They also found isotopic signatures corresponding to other subduction zone rocks such as ... Keller et al, Mafic slab melt contributions to Proterozoic massif-type anorthosites, Science Advances ...