This week, researchers reported on nine rivers and lakes in the Americas that defy hydrologic expectations. Geologists report ...

Beneath the American Midwest, part of the continent is gradually losing its foundation. This slow geological phenomenon, ...

The Cascadia subduction zone, where the oceanic Juan de Fuca plate descends beneath the overlying North American plate, extends 1100 km from northern California to northern Vancouver Island.

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

Subduction zones are the most important sites of material exchange between the crust and mantle on Earth. They are also the ...

But, in light of the ever-evolving and dynamic interplay between Earth's tectonic plates, it is clear that this subduction boundary will not last forever. References Wannamaker, P. E. et al ...

The Pontus oceanic plate that was reconstructed by Suzanna ... An earlier study showed that a large subduction zone must have run through the western paleo-Pacific Ocean, which separated the ...

Continental plates are usually quite thick (between 35 to 70 km) compared to the much thinner oceanic plates (between 5 and 10 km). The oceanic rocks are usually made from basalt, while ...

A new paper warns that an Atlantic Ring of Fire could form in the next 20 million years as new subduction zones invade the ...