Amid Earth’s mobile tectonic plates, subduction zones arise as regions of intense geological activity and concentrate minerals into ore deposits like gold.

Plates at subduction zones typically move just a few centimeters ... the plates can slip several meters and cause some of Earth's largest earthquakes. The timing and location of such megathrust ...

Scientists have solved the mystery of how earthquakes can occur 420 miles deep inside Earth, where extreme pressure and heat ...

The Earth's mantle, the layer between the crust and the core, is the stage for slow but powerful movements. These movements, called convection, are responsible for plate tectonics. Oceanic plates, ...

Instead, the water content of the Earth’s interior strongly influences the evolution and dynamics of the ... with rheological analysis suggests that the formation of volcanoes in northeast China is ...

These crustal collisions occur gradually over millions of years, yet have a profound impact in reshaping the Earth's surface.

Waves that ripple from Earth's centre can be used to sense what it's made of, and where those materials might be found.

Cian Wilson is a Computational Scientist at DTM. He received his Ph.D. in computational physics from the Department of Earth Science & Engineering at the Imperial College in London. Prior to joining ...

In fact, it found that just 60–70% of subduction zones align with positive anomalies. “Apparently, such zones in the Earth’s mantle are much more widespread than previously thought,” says ...