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 ...

But I think we have something new here.” So how do subduction zones start? “It’s one of the biggest unsolved problems in plate tectonics,” Duarte says. One way to locate subduction zones ...

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

Earth’s earliest crust may have looked a lot more like the continents we know today than scientists once believed. A recent study shakes up old ideas about how Earth's surface evolved, showing that ...

The research supports the argument that Venus’ tectonics are active today, he says. What’s more, the demonstrated ability of computer simulations to predict what spacecraft may observe will be a boon ...

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 ...