"It's giving us a glimpse into Earth's past that we've never had before." Subduction occurs when one tectonic plate slides beneath another, recycling surface material back into Earth's mantle.

The subfigures above depict how the four-dimensional model predicts the subduction of the Izanagi plate, which occurred from 163 to 90 million years ago. The unique features of this geological process ...

A 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck 170 miles off Oregon's southern coast on Wednesday afternoon, with tremors felt by over 75 ...

Sometime – maybe sometime soon – that pressure will be released. When the Cascadia Subduction Zone ruptures, it is likely to create a massive earthquake that will be felt across the Pacific ...

Recent research has identified that significant changes in the Earth's mantle composition began about 300 million years ago, ...

A subduction zone is created where two plates converge, with one sinking into the mantle. Dynamics along the plate interface create earthquakes, magma generated above the sinking slab leads to ...

It’s called the Cascadia Subduction Zone. The Cascadia Subduction Zone is a megathrust fault or the meeting of two tectonic plates. The Juan de Fuca plate is being forced under the North ...

While subduction (when a denser tectonic plate is forced beneath the other into the underlying mantle where it melts) and deep mantle plumes (when a segment of the mantle rises to the surface due ...

It’s called the Cascadia Subduction Zone. The Cascadia Subduction Zone is a megathrust fault or the meeting of two tectonic plates. The Juan de Fuca plate is being forced under the North ...

It’s called the Cascadia Subduction Zone. The Cascadia Subduction Zone is a megathrust fault or the meeting of two tectonic plates. The Juan de Fuca plate is being forced under the North ...