Seismic waves from earthquakes have always offered a window into Earth’s hidden interior. For decades, researchers believed ...

Scientists have discovered an unusually thick mantle transition zone beneath the Lesser Antilles. This discovery sheds new light on how oceanic plates sink into the Earth's mantle. Variations ...

This early rocky shell featured chemical signatures previously thought to occur only in continental crusts made by the ...

According to INCOIS scientists, all Indian coastal Union Territories and states are vulnerable to tsunamis caused by two subduction zones: the Andaman-Nicobar-Sumatra Island Arc and the Makran ...

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, ...

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics ...

By imposing velocity boundary conditions in the vicinity of the subduction zone, we enforce a geometry for subduction, producing a slab with a realistic thermal structure. To make the model ...

Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

Large distributions of basalt rock compositions within the MTZ can ... bottom seismic experiment conducted at an Atlantic subduction zone," said Dr. Catherine Rychert, formerly an Associate ...