While most subducted plates sink deep into the Earth relatively quickly after traveling less than a couple hundred kilometers beneath an overriding plate (behavior sometimes referred to as steep ...

From Atlantis to El Dorado and Avalon, legend tells us that Earth is dotted with lost lands that once met a dramatic downfall. While these are commonly considered inventive myths, a new study ...

This zone marks the interface where the denser Pacific oceanic plate subducts beneath the less dense continental North American plate. As the subducted plate descends, the heat from the earth's ...

The tiny Juan de Fuca plate is largely responsible for the volcanoes that dot the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The plates make up Earth's outer shell, called the lithosphere.

Research at the universities of Caltech and ETH Zurich has uncovered hidden structures deep in Earth’s mantle beneath the ...