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Off the coast of Chile and Peru, along the entire western length of South America, the seafloor takes a sharp, steep plunge ...

"This thickened area is like a fossilized fingerprint of an ancient piece of seafloor that subducted into the Earth approximately 250 million years ago," Wang said. "It's giving us a glimpse into ...

“The general idea is that mantle blobs are likely pushed around by subducted slabs. The two main blobs are surrounded by ‘graveyards’ of subducted slabs,” Cottaar says, referring to the ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

Cratons are fascinating yet enigmatic geological formations. Known to be relatively stable portions of the Earth's ...

It’s an important discovery that sheds light on a tectonic boundary that subducted beneath the Pacific Ocean during the age ...

The North China Craton (NCC) is a very old and stable geological structure, experiencing deformations since the Mesozoic era.

An unexpected find in tiny crystals hints that the Earth's mantle may not quite behave as has been believed for nearly a century.

The mantle is split up into two domains — the African and the Pacific — that emerged when supercontinent Pangaea broke apart.