Mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORBs), located far from subduction zones, are typically thought to be unaffected by subduction ...

A 3.0 magnitude earthquake struck early Wednesday morning near Okanogan. The epicenter was recorded about 27 miles northeast ...

Earth's crust today has a surprisingly similar composition to the planet's first outer shell, or "protocrust," new research ...

Scientists discovered Earth's first crust had continental chemical signatures. This challenges beliefs about when these ...

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

A subduction zone, composed of the deep Aleutian Trench coupled with a landward line of volcanoes, creates a series of offshore islands (the Aleutians) as well as a line of volcanoes along the ...

What happens, then, to keep the Earth the same size? The answer is subduction. In locations around the world, ocean crust subducts, or slides under, other pieces of Earth's crust. The boundary ...

The India-Asia continental collision and the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau have long been attributed to continuous Cenozoic convergence with two generic assumptions: the ongoing India-Asia collision ...

A landmark study published in Geoscience—a leading Chinese journal at the forefront of earth science research—has resolved critical debates about mantle dynamics beneath the Tonga Subduction ...

Did you feel it? The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (PNSN) says a 3.0 magnitude earthquake hit near Okanogan Wednesday ...