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

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 ...

Researchers have discovered cratonic thinning occurring beneath North America, driven by the remnants of the Farallon Plate. Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American ...

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

A figure from the study showing rock dripping from the craton. The researchers hypothesize that the dripping is caused by the remnants of the subducting Farallon slab below the craton. Researchers ...

In the uppermost lower mantle, seismic anisotropy is ubiquitous near subducting slabs, where shear waves with horizontal polarization propagate faster than those with vertical polarization (VSH ...

This water, which is carried to such depths by subducting tectonic slabs, is stored in minerals like ringwoodite and wadsleyite. The distribution of water in the MTZ, both today and in the past ...

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