A study reveals that the oldest continental crust on Earth is slowly being broken up by shifting tectonic forces.

Heavily deformed plate margin. However, models of the Earth's interior constructed by scientists using seismic tomography revealed contradictory results: in the western United States, for example ...

It’s surprising to find remnants of a plate that we just didn’t know about at all,” Suzanna van de Lagemaat, the Utrecht University geologist whose work has reversed decades of conventional wisdom ...

High-Resolution Anisotropic Tomography Reveals Mantle Flow Complexity and Slab-Plume Interactions, Redefining Subduction Zone Dynamics ...

The project's genesis can be traced to a seismic imaging theory first proposed in the 1980s. To fill in gaps within seismic data maps, the theory posited a method called adjoint tomography, an ...

A bathymetric map of an area near the Kuril Trench subduction zone to the east of Japan where scientists set seismometers on the ocean floor and used air guns to send seismic waves into the rock ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone looks a little different than researchers thought. Here's what that means for 'The Big One' ... Pacific Northwest Seismic Network director and UW professor.