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Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

Drewitt, J. W. E., Walter, M. J., Zhang, H., McMahon, S. C., Edwards, D., Heinen, B. J., Lord, O. T., Anzellini, S., & Kleppe, A. K. (2019). The fate of carbonate in ...

Scientists have detected that the Neotethys oceanic plate is tearing apart horizontally ... As stress redistributes within the crust, regions like northwest Iran, Iraq, and southeast Turkey ...

Continental and oceanic plates all fit together to form the outer crust of the planet. Eight major plates are named on the diagram below. Heat from the core makes magma in the mantle rise towards ...

Deep trenches appear at these boundaries, caused by the oceanic plate bending downward into the Earth. Deep below the Earth's surface, subduction causes partial melting of both the ocean crust and ...