For decades, scientists debated whether the Indian Plate was simply underplating — slipping beneath Tibet's crust — or subducting deeper into the Earth. Listen to Story There is striking difference in ...

For decades, scientists debated whether the Indian Plate was simply underplating — slipping beneath Tibet's crust — or subducting deeper into the Earth. But new 3D imaging, conducted by an ...

The absence of an accumulation of magma beneath the oceanic crust, as was previously inferred for Hawaii and at other seamounts, contradicts the expectation that underplating is favored for ...

A new geophysical study suggests Tibet may be “splitting in two,” as the Indian tectonic plate is tearing underneath the Tibetan Plateau. Credit: Midjourney for GreekReporter A new geophysical study ...

One of the images appeared to show evidence of the top and lower slabs of the Indian Plate appearing to detach. It subsequently suggests the Indian Plate is 'underplating' or 'subducting' beneath a ...

School of Earth and Environment, Anhui University of Science and Technology, Huainan 232001, Anhui, China State Key Laboratory of Mining Response and Disaster Prevention and Control in Deep Coal Mines ...

The orogenic evolution of Taiwan is thought to have occurred with a steady and southward propagating trend since the Late Miocene. Recent studies suggest a two-stage collision for the Taiwan orogen ...

The NE-SW fast polarization direction was consistent with the SKS splitting results, and the average delay time was 0.45 s. Moreover, underplating of deep magma and upwelling along the weak zone ...

We propose that two competing processes, plateau formation by underplating and continental loss by foundering or stoping, are simultaneously operating beneath the collision zone. Our results suggest ...

Our synthesis of the combined data locates the northern limit of Indian underplating beneath Tibet, where the Indian plate bends to steeper dips or breaks off beneath a (likely thin) asthenospheric ...