I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our ...

However, a new high-resolution model shows that these remnants can also be found far from subduction zones ... in a press statement, “or zones where iron-rich rocks accumulate as a consequence ...

This area, called the Cascadia Subduction Zone, hosts a megathrust fault ... continental plate is composed of many different ...

This indicates the presence of zones of rocks that are colder ... because it is impossible that there were subduction zones nearby in the recent geological history. Seismic cross section through ...

In a nutshell Scientists have solved the mystery of how earthquakes can occur 420 miles deep inside Earth, where extreme ...

A record-breaking deep earthquake registered in May 2015 offshore of Japan likely was not a tectonic event but triggered by a ...

Amid Earth’s mobile tectonic plates, subduction zones arise as regions of intense geological activity and concentrate minerals into ore deposits like gold.

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.

However, there is no evidence of plate subduction—a geological process ... the convective movements in the mantle, or zones where iron-rich rocks accumulate as a consequence of these mantle ...

The Pacific Northwest is at risk for a mega-earthquake because of the Cascadia Subduction Zone. The region is primed for powerful quakes, with a particularly strong one called the Big One ...