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 ...

An international study has revealed how continental collisions may have supercharged the Earth's richest deposits of copper, ...

Far beneath the ocean's surface, where mountain belts rise and ancient oceanic crust lies hidden, a long-lost tectonic plate ...

If subduction spreads this way, could the Atlantic Ocean’s relatively quiet plate margins be next? The massive 1755 Lisbon earthquake hints at early subduction invasion there.

Tsunami earthquakes are characterized by the generation of disproportionately large tsunamis relative to the observed ground ...

An international study has revealed how continental collisions may have supercharged Earth's richest deposits of copper, a ...

As the most seismically active regions in the world, oceanic subduction zones show contrasting seismicity in different regions. A review by a team from Nanjing University explored the ...

This oceanic crust eventually needs to go somewhere, though, so faster spreading on one end of an oceanic plate drives more subduction on the other end, forcing the plate under its neighbor and back ...

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

A modeling study suggests a slumbering subduction zone below the Gibraltar Strait is active and could break into the Atlantic Ocean in 20 million years' time, giving birth to an Atlantic "Ring of ...

The Atlantic Ocean may begin to shrink, said a new study published in the journal Geology.Oceans are not necessarily a permanent fixture on Earth, as they are able to appear and close due to the ...

A subduction zone near Gibraltar may move into the Atlantic, creating an "Atlantic ring of fire" before the ocean begins to close.