Geologists have uncovered a mysterious subduction zone deep beneath the Pacific Ocean, reshaping our understanding of Earth's ...

Researchers created a seismic map of Earth's interior beneath the southeastern Pacific Ocean and discovered an ancient slab ...

Wang hopes to create a more comprehensive map of ancient subduction and upwelling (the geological process that occurs when subducted material heats up and rises to the surface again) zones ...

A mysterious discovery reveals a story from the dinosaur age: evidence of an ancient seafloor that sunk deep into the Earth.

The map consists of 200,000 images taken over 13 years using the European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope.

Along this fraught stretch, called the Cascadia subduction zone ... they used the data to construct a comprehensive map of ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence of a long-lost underwater collision that occurred over 100 million years ago, dramatically ...

This solid surface then eventually formed continents, but they were very different ones compared with the world map we know today ... by a process known as subduction. This is when two tectonic ...

"This thickened area is like a fossilized fingerprint of an ancient piece of seafloor that subducted into the Earth ...

Keep an eye on the map to see where in the world the activity takes place ... go to The Sea Floor Spread. Also known as subduction boundary, a convergent boundary occurs where one plate slides ...

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