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

Stable parts of the Earth's crust may not be as immovable as previously ... Though the cause of decratonization is unclear, scientists posit that subduction, "when a denser tectonic plate is ...

Encarnacion is interested in a variety of tectonic and petrologic problems dealing with subduction, magmatism, island arc and continental crustal growth as well as ore deposits. His research has taken ...

What happens, then, to keep the Earth the same size? The answer is subduction. In locations around the world, ocean crust subducts, or slides under, other pieces of Earth's crust. The boundary ...

Crustal earthquakes, whose magnitude may exceed 7 in some cases, occur within the overriding North America plate as it deforms in response to the subduction process. The 1946 magnitude 7.3 event that ...

These crustal collisions occur gradually over millions of years, yet have a profound impact in reshaping the Earth's surface.

the thick continental crust plowed into Eurasia with great force, creating the immense mountain range. The disparities in subduction speed likely subjected the Indian Plate to multiple directional ...

Along this fraught stretch, called the Cascadia Subduction Zone, two pieces of the Earth’s crust slide against each other, building up stresses capable of unleashing a catastrophic 9.0-magnitude ...