Recent seismic imaging off Vancouver Island has revealed something extraordinary: a tear in the subducting oceanic plate ...

Earth's "gold kitchen" lies deep beneath the seafloor. Island arcs, whose volcanoes form above subduction zones where one ...

A new study from scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and the University of Chicago sheds light on a hotly contested debate in Earth sciences: when did plate subduction ...

New research from Adelaide University has revealed that geological processes dating back billions of years are critical to ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone is “unusually quiet,” for a megathrust fault, making it more difficult for scientists to ...

(a) Geological units and earthquake distribution of an oceanic subduction zone. The orange shadow beneath the volcanic arc represents partially molten areas and magma channels. (b) Thermal structure ...

The Pacific Northwest coast has been living under the shadow of the 620-mile-long Cascadia Subduction Zone, where the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate is steadily pushing under the North American plate.

The vast stretch of ocean between the Americas and Europe may be about to close soon—on a geological timescale. Just before the continents begin to drift back together, an "Atlantic ring of fire" is ...

Understanding the origins of the Ring of Fire, the most seismically active place on Earth, is famously difficult as geologic evidence is destroyed in the process. Now a new study suggests that ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Understanding the origins of the Ring of Fire, the most seismically active place on Earth, is famously difficult as geologic evidence is destroyed in ...