Mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORBs), located far from subduction zones, are typically thought to be unaffected by subduction ...

Earth's crust today has a surprisingly similar composition to the planet's first outer shell, or "protocrust," new research ...

we have demonstrated convection with plates and slabs that resemble those observed on Earth, but in which up to 40 per cent of the mantle's total convective resistance is associated with deformation ...

Subduction zones are the most important sites of material exchange between the crust and mantle on Earth. They are also the locations where the largest deposits of strategic metals, such as copper, ...

Subduction zones are the most important sites of material exchange between the crust and mantle on Earth. They are also ... and volatile compounds (SO 2, SO 3, CO 2) are released through ...

Here we apply a probabilistic inversion technique based on Bayes’ theorem to surface heat flow data from Tohoku in Japan and Cascadia to simultaneously infer five model parameters that appear to have ...

Between depths of 410 and 660 kilometers lies the mantle transition zone (MTZ ... of plate subduction, which recycles surface materials and volatile elements deep into Earth's interior, sustaining ...

This causes a shockwave of stored energy to travel up towards Earth's surface, which we feel as an earthquake. The Cascadia subduction zone stretches from northern California all the way to ...

"Yes, that signature forms today [through plate tectonics]," O'Neill said. "But the assumption that the Earth has always ...