It is unclear what these structures are. If they were anywhere else, they could be portions of tectonic plates that have sunk ...

The Earth’s mantle, stretching up to 1,800 miles thick and making up a whopping 84% of the planet’s volume, used to be ...

Typically, these remnants are found near subduction zones, where one plate sinks beneath another. However, the anomalies detected under the Pacific Ocean are far from any plate boundaries ...

Understanding subduction invasion also shapes our understanding of geological history. The Atlantic Ocean has been growing while the Pacific has been shrinking. However, just because the Atlantic ...

The leftover pieces found under the Pacific Ocean surprised scientists as existing models have determined that there shouldn't be any such material in the area due to the lack of plate subduction.

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

Recent research report by Live Science suggests that a dormant subduction zone beneath the ... of a new geological phenomenon akin to the Pacific Ocean's 'Ring of Fire.' ...