Now in Nature, Wannamaker and colleagues use electrical resistivity data to investigate a plate boundary in New Zealand where a subduction zone beneath the North Island is lengthening at the ...

South of New Zealand in the Tasman Sea is a stretch ... different types of crust against one another at a preexisting plate boundary leads to subduction may help to explain how other new ...

These are conservative boundaries.At all of these different ... below ground level.Beneath the south island of New Zealand, the Pacific plate is being subducted under the Australian plate.On ...

The Pacific Ring of Fire is a tectonically active region with frequent earthquakes and volcanoes, spanning 40,000 km around ...

“What we're doing is refining plate tectonics – the theory that describes how our planet works – and showing ... to plunge down into the Earth’s mantle along undersea trenches or subduction zones that ...

"But in recent times, the 2011 Tohoku earthquake Japan was on that the plate boundary." Professor Quigley says because New Zealand also lies within the Ring of Fire, he's not surprised by the 7.5 ...

Fears of a tsunami rocking New Zealand have arisen after a magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck off the country's South Island ...

Suzanna van de Lagemaat will defend her dissertation on this plate tectonics puzzle at Utrecht ... plates in the region between Japan and New Zealand. That revealed how large the area was of ...