"These two large islands are surrounded by a graveyard of tectonic plates which have been transported there by a process called 'subduction ... convection or flow of the mantle, meaning that ...

Finally, using their geodynamic mantle-flow model, they simulated the full extent of the subduction process and validated the ...

A computer model visualization of material in the lower mantle. This material resembles a sunken plate but cannot come from subducted plates because of the lack of nearby subduction zones.