Subduction zones are what cause the oceans to close, by pulling their ocean floor back into the mantle, bringing the continents together.' The 10-mile Gibraltar Strait that separates Spain and ...

More specifically, subduction zones — where tectonic plates ... and that may well be the Indian, or even an ocean that may split Africa and Eurasia." Devika Rao has worked as a staff writer ...

They achieved this through the recent development of a high-resolution tomographic image of the upper mantle beneath the India-Eurasia collision zone ... of the subducting Indian continental ...