Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world's most devastating earthquakes and ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and ...

By 260 million years ago this subduction seems to have spread and begun pulling down the neighboring Pacific plate. Credit ... that transform faults — boundaries where plates slide past one ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology ...

A new study does the difficult task of trying to piece together the history of the world’s largest subduction zone.

Southwest Research Institute has collaborated with Yale University to summarize the scientific community's notable progress ...

It’s surprising to find remnants of a plate that we just didn’t know about at all,” Suzanna van de Lagemaat, the Utrecht University geologist whose work has reversed decades of conventional wisdom ...

The Himalaya are the dramatic result of one such tectonic pileup some 50 million years ago, when the Indian continental plate rammed into the Eurasian plate. Both land masses are thick and buoyant ...