An international team of researchers' analysis of minerals from the Pilbara region of Western Australia has given new insight ...

A groundbreaking study in Science Advances reveals that Earth's tectonic plates are breaking apart under the Cascadia ...

Scientists have recorded the process of disintegration of the subduction zone. A study led by specialists from Louisiana State University and the Lamont-Doherty Observatory at Columbia University has ...

For the first time, scientists have watched a subduction zone literally fall apart beneath the ocean floor. Using advanced ...

Subduction zones can look permanent on a map. They run for hundreds or thousands of miles, haul oceanic crust into the mantle ...

Ancient crystal clues: Zircons from the Pilbara Craton show signs of increasing oxidation and water content between 3.5 and 3.2 billion years ago. Early subduction evidence: Researchers propose that a ...

UWA researchers have helped to unearth more about how ancient continents formed on Earth 3.5 billion years ago.

Scientists have, for the first time, clearly captured a subduction zone in the act of breaking apart. These zones form where one tectonic plate sinks ...

A massive fault is tearing the Juan de Fuca plate apart deep beneath the seafloor, and the quietest parts of the crack are ...

Two of the most dangerous fault systems on the U.S. West Coast may be more connected than scientists once thought. New ...

An international team led by researchers from the National Museum of Natural Sciences (MNCN-CSIC) has identified a key ...

An international team of researchers' analysis of minerals from the Pilbara region of Western Australia has given new insight ...