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

Additionally, the discovery of two “giant blobs” deep inside the Earth has sparked debates among experts about how and why ...

New findings provide a greater understanding of plate subduction, or how tectonic plates slide beneath one another. This recycling of surface materials and volatile elements deep into the Earth's ...

Recent research report by Live Science suggests that a dormant subduction zone beneath the ... a new geological phenomenon akin to the Pacific Ocean's 'Ring of Fire.' ...

An international delegation is in Kochi for a week-long engagement titled ‘People-centric tsunami early-warning for Indian ...

Geoscientists have used earthquakes to study the composition of the lower portion of the Earth’s mantle under the Pacific Ocean – and ... that have sunk in a subduction zone.

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 ...

Conducted by researchers from Ocean University of China and Tohoku ... by slab rollback—challenges conventional models of subduction-driven circulation. The Tonga Subduction Zone, characterized ...