Far below the Pacific, scientists are mapping a hidden record of catastrophe carved into the seabed by ancient Cascadia ...

Scientists are uncovering a hidden and surprisingly complex earthquake zone beneath Northern California by tracking swarms of ...

Focusing on an area off the coast of Crescent City, California, the researchers used autonomous and remotely operated ...

A hidden chunk of an ancient tectonic plate is stuck to the Pacific Ocean floor and sliding under North America, complicating ...

ABSTRACT: The Anié unit, located in central Togo, belongs to the suture zone of the Pan-African Dahomeyide belt. The aim of this work is to contribute to the updating of geological data focused on the ...

An international research collaboration has harnessed supercomputing power to better understand how massive slabs of ancient ocean floors are shaped as they sink hundreds of kilometers below Earth's ...

Surprising new evidence is helping scientists track the origins of mysterious earthquakes that have been rattling Southwest Iberia in recent months. According to new research, slabs of ocean floor off ...

Recent lab measurements show that olivine remains surprisingly transparent to infrared radiation under mantle conditions, causing rapid radiative heating of subducting slabs and restricting deep-water ...

A mantle-plume driven, two-stage melting and sagduction model, recorded in ancient zircon chemistry, overturns the long-standing subduction paradigm for the birth of Earth’s first continents.

Copper wires snake through every electric motor, power line, and rooftop solar panel on the planet. Demand for the metal is rising so fast that the International Energy Agency projects a 50 percent ...

Earth’s first continents were supposed to be forever. Their deep roots, more than 120 miles thick, once looked too cold and too strong for the mantle to pry loose. Now a modeling study led by ...