Instead, it’s oozing warm liquid up into the Pacific Ocean. According to a press release from the University of Washington, the hole was found on top of the Cascadia Subduction Zone fault.

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

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

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 ...

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.' ...

The leftover pieces found under the Pacific Ocean surprised scientists as existing models have determined that there shouldn't be any such material in the area due to the lack of plate subduction.

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 ...

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 ...