The Pacific Northwest got some early shakes Thursday morning with a 4.0 magnitude earthquake in the waters between San Juan ...

The processes that control the deformation and eventual destruction of Earth’s oldest continental crust ... are helium-depleted due to subduction of oceanic crust into the mantle, according ...

thickening and melting of precursor crust that likely resembled oceanic plateaus. The continental crust was destined to develop the way it did because it kept getting buried further and the rocks ...

Many of these radiogenic elements are extracted from the mantle during melting and reside in the continental ... convergence at subduction zones. The boundaries where plates move apart give rise to ...

"The continental crust and the underlying mantle roots of the continent bear the scars of ancient continental collisions and oceanic subduction," says UBC researcher Phil Hammer, lead author of the ...

The Hikurangi Subduction Zone marks the boundary where the Pacific plate plunges below the Australian plate. If we drained the ocean, it’d appear as a vast mountain range rising up from the sea ...

it does not require that subduction was the only way to form continental crust. Thus the continued debate over the origin of continental crust cannot be fully resolved by subduction arguments alone.

Off the coast of Oregon, the wind blows hard and waves are strong, attracting researchers and businesses interested in ...

The Pacific Ocean is the largest of all oceans with an approximate size of 60 million square miles. On the other hand, seas are relatively small in size and, in many cases they are at least ...

It is hoped that a good telephone service between Britain and continental countries will foster trade and promote better political relations. The “silly season’’ has this year been marked by ...

The global ocean continues to warm at a concerning rate. Satellite measurements of average sea surface temperatures show February this year was the highest for any month in the 45-year dataset ...

India vs Mauritius Inter-Continental Cup, Live Streaming: India men's football team will be taking on Mauritius in the opening match of Inter-Continetal Cup on Tuesday in Hyderabad. Seeking to put ...