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

Researchers found that an inactive subduction zone under the Strait of Gibraltar may begin migrating into the Atlantic Ocean, commencing the shrinking process. The zone also brings a higher risk ...

In the present-day ocean, there are several early-stage subduction zones with differential geological records, for example, the Puysegur subduction zone to the south of New Zealand.

Not all mountains in the Yellowstone region are volcanic in origin. The Wind River Range, southeast of Yellowstone National ...

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

An earlier study showed that a large subduction zone must have run through the western paleo-Pacific Ocean, which separated the known Pacific plates in the east from a hypothetical Pontus plate in ...

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