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 ...

Geologists have uncovered the remains of a massive tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean, a plate that had been hidden for ...

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

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, ... jumping from one oceanic plate to another—a hypothesis previously difficult to prove.

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

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 ...

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...