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 presents ...

Six large tsunamis struck the eastern Aleutians over the past 1,700 years, usually at intervals of about 300 years, an analysis of the geological record shows.

image: This image shows a computer model of typical mantle flow patterns. To study the surface deformation, the team needed to understand the flow in the upper 800 km of the Earth's mantle.

University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO) geophysicist Chris Kincaid has received $143,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study flow patterns in the Earth’s ...