which once covered 15 million square miles—about a quarter of the Pacific Ocean. For millions of years, it was believed to ...

Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

A breakthrough study has provided the most detailed 3D look yet at the inner workings of the Tonga Subduction Zone, where ...

Deep within Earth’s mantle lie two enormous, continent-sized structures known as LLVPs. Scientists once believed these ...

Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

Mantle The mantle is the layer of the ... the crust has cracked and split into many different pieces called tectonic plates. These plates can be oceanic, meaning they're found mainly under the ...

For billions of years, the continents have cruised across Earth’s surface like tectonic vessels, but they have not survived unscathed. Waves in the underlying layer known as the mantle can scour ...

The two giant blobs — one beneath the Pacific Ocean and one beneath Africa ... That part of the mantle is made of old tectonic plates that break into tiny pieces when they sink deep enough ...

While subduction (when a denser tectonic plate ... (NCC), western Pacific Ocean, since the middle Mesozoic (168 million years ago, Ma) using four-dimensional mantle flow models of Earth's plate ...

High-Resolution Anisotropic Tomography Reveals Mantle Flow Complexity and Slab-Plume Interactions, Redefining Subduction Zone ...