This project evaluates the hypothesis that shallow-angle subduction of material beneath a continent, and sticking that material to the base of the overriding plate, can cause a "flare-up" in igneous ...

Slab gaps in subducted plates are widely hypothesized to channel hot mantle upwellings, yet their formation and thermal state remain enigmatic. Here we image a continuous ~1000 km-long arcuate slab ...

Clifford G. C. Patten, Alexandre Peillod, Simon Hector, Barbara I. Kleine-Marshall, Aratz Beranoaguirre, Antonin Bilau, Kirsten Drüppel, Jesse B. Walters, Iain Pitcairn, Uwe Ring, Alasdair Skelton & ...

(a) Geological units and earthquake distribution of an oceanic subduction zone. The orange shadow beneath the volcanic arc represents partially molten areas and magma channels. (b) Thermal structure ...

Ten years ago, Samer Naif made an unexpected discovery in Earth's mantle: a narrow pocket, proposed to be filled with magma, hidden some 60 kilometers beneath the seafloor of the Cocos Plate. Mantle ...

The present solid Earth is actually active, with new plates generating in the mid-ocean ridges and some old plates sinking back into the interior through subduction zones. Subduction is thus a key ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate slides beneath another, produce the most devastating seismic, volcanic, and landslide hazards on the planet. A new report presents an ambitious plan to make ...