What happens, then, to keep the Earth the same size? The answer is subduction. In locations around the world, ocean crust subducts, or slides under, other pieces of Earth's crust. The boundary ...

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

Bringing a novel approach to a classic problem, researchers have revealed how changes in ocean chemistry over the past 2 ...

Sometimes, an ocean plate (which is made of denser rock than continental crust ... Many spectacular volcanoes are found along subduction zones, such as the "Ring of Fire" that surrounds the ...

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

The Cascadia subduction zone, where the oceanic Juan de Fuca plate descends beneath the ... West of Vancouver Island, seismic reflection surveys show that beneath the continental shelf the top of the ...

suggesting the shortage of sediment accretionary wedges derived from weathering of granitic continental crust above oceanic ...

While certain regions of the continental crust ... ancient lithosphere can break apart due to specific forms of subduction near oceanic plates. This ongoing process reveals how continents have ...

Researchers found that an inactive subduction zone under the Strait of Gibraltar may begin migrating into the Atlantic Ocean, commencing the shrinking process. The zone also brings a higher risk ...

Modern-style plate tectonics, marked by continental crust subduction and deep slab break-off, began in the late Neoproterozoic (approximately 600–700 million years ago). Under the modern ...