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 ...

"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 ...

At the boundary between these ... suggest that the Pontus plate was once part of a unified tectonic system stretching from ...

"What we're doing is refining plate tectonics-the theory that describes ... At the western edge, it runs from Japan to New Zealand and Australia. This plate forms a large portion of the Pacific ...

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 ...

Scientists studying rocks in South Africa report evidence for the earliest known earthquake triggered by plate tectonics ... of GNS Science in Lower Hutt, New Zealand, had mapped the distribution ...