I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our ...

They also found isotopic signatures corresponding to other subduction zone rocks such as abyssal serpentinite. "Our research indicates that these giant anorthosites likely originated from the ...

However, a new high-resolution model shows that these remnants can also be found far from subduction zones ... in a press statement, “or zones where iron-rich rocks accumulate as a consequence ...

In a nutshell Scientists have solved the mystery of how earthquakes can occur 420 miles deep inside Earth, where extreme ...

Amid Earth’s mobile tectonic plates, subduction zones arise as regions of intense geological activity and concentrate minerals into ore deposits like gold.

However, there is no evidence of plate subduction—a geological process ... the convective movements in the mantle, or zones where iron-rich rocks accumulate as a consequence of these mantle ...

A re-examination of the 2015 Bonin Islands earthquake disproved earlier claims of a record-breaking deep aftershock in the ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone gets less press but has the most powerful ... and southern Illinois. Little Rock, Nashville, Memphis, and St. Louis are the largest nearby cities that could experience ...