Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

The Pacific and Australian plates collide and interact in complex ways around New Zealand. Electrical resistivity data reveal that subduction-zone fluids exert an important influence on ...

A subduction zone is created where two plates converge, with one sinking into the mantle. Dynamics along the plate interface create earthquakes, magma generated above the sinking slab leads to ...

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

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

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

Schematic figure of the subduction zone underneath the Kanto region (left) in Japan and the spatial distribution of magnitude 2 to 6 earthquakes on the subduction zone at 60 to 70 kilometers below ...

This area, called the Cascadia Subduction Zone, hosts a megathrust fault, a place where tectonic plates move against each other in a highly dangerous way. The plates can periodically lock up and ...

The Cascadia subduction zone, where the oceanic Juan de Fuca plate descends beneath the overlying North ... Further east, relative motion between the two plates appears to take place through aseismic ...

This volcanic arc delineates the boundary between the Pacific and North American tectonic plates. A subduction zone, composed of the deep Aleutian Trench coupled with a landward line of volcanoes ...

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient ... conducted at an Atlantic subduction zone," said Dr. Catherine Rychert, formerly ...