An international team of earth scientists from Canada, the Netherlands, Norway, and the UK now showed for the first time that subduction zones form because plate tectonic changes elsewhere start ...

Fresh evidence suggests early Earth wasn’t locked under a rigid stagnant lid but was already experiencing intense subduction.

A translation of this article was made by Wiley. 本文由Wiley提供翻译稿。 Subduction zones are cornerstone components of plate tectonics, with one plate sliding beneath another back into Earth’s mantle. But the ...

Our planet's lithosphere is broken into several tectonic plates. Their configuration is ever-shifting, as supercontinents are assembled and broken up, and oceans form, grow, and then start to close in ...

Subduction occurs when two lithospheric plates collide, causing the heavier one to sink below the edge of the other, forming so-called convergent boundaries. Typically, the oceanic crust is usually ...

Subduction zones are arguably one of the most complex components of plate tectonics, yet they have dominated the Earth’s dynamics for billions of years, and form major seismic and volcanic hazards.

The magnitude 9 Tohoku earthquake that devastated parts of Japan in 2011 came as a surprise because it occurred in a region that wasn’t thought to be able to produce giant earthquakes. Credit: William ...