Plates at subduction zones typically move just a few centimeters per year. But when accumulated stress at these convergent ...

The researchers theorize that these far-off remnants could either be deposits of silica-rich material that have hung around ...

Now, scientists aim to get their clearest picture yet of the complex mechanics of our big-risk Hikurangi Subduction Zone – ...

An international team of geophysicists says it has discovered evidence of a "lost world" hidden beneath the Western Pacific Ocean.

These fragments of our surface do have a tendency to sink into Earth's mantle when they lose out in the plate-on-plate ...

A new high-resolution computer model shows rocks that are colder, or have a different composition, in Earth's mantle where ...

The thermodynamic model developed by the team shows that the gold-trisulfur complex is essential to explain the high ... predict the conditions necessary for the formation of the gold-trisulfur ...

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Experts and advocates, who often have a vested stake in creative doomsaying, seem particularly gifted at ginning up ...

Helen Janiszewski, a graduate student at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory's department of Earth and environment sciences, will give a talk titled “Shoreline-crossing Shear-velocity Structure of ...

Christopher Thissen, postdoctoral fellow at DTM, will give a talk titled "Flow paths and strain in a subduction wedge, Cascadia subduction zone, NW Washington State" at 11 a.m. on Thursday, 23 June ...