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

The Cascadia subduction zone, where the oceanic Juan de Fuca plate descends beneath the overlying North American plate, extends 1100 km from northern California to northern Vancouver Island.

These ancient buried "super-continents"—known to scientists as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs)—were found lurking below Africa and the Pacific Ocean, entombed some 1,200 miles below the ...

The Pontus oceanic plate that was reconstructed by Suzanna ... An earlier study showed that a large subduction zone must have run through the western paleo-Pacific Ocean, which separated the ...

Their research has revealed that in the present day, deep below the Earth's surface, the Neotethys oceanic plate—the ocean floor that used to be between the Arabian and Eurasian continents—is ...

Continental plates are usually quite thick (between 35 to 70 km) compared to the much thinner oceanic plates (between 5 and 10 km). The oceanic rocks are usually made from basalt, while ...