Plates at subduction zones typically move just a few centimeters per year. But when accumulated stress at these convergent ...

The researchers theorize that these far-off remnants could either be deposits of silica-rich material that have hung around ...

These fragments of our surface do have a tendency to sink into Earth's mantle when they lose out in the plate-on-plate ...

Cyclic changes of fluid pressure in fault zones can induce slow-slip events that advance in the direction of fluid flow, even when the faults are stable.

The Earth comprises several layers ... exactly it got to its current location despite the absence of nearby subduction zones. "That's our dilemma. With the new high-resolution model, we can ...

A new high-resolution computer model shows rocks that are colder, or have a different composition, in Earth's mantle where ...

Scientists discovered plate anomalies in Earth's mantle using seismic wave analysis. These mysterious structures challenge ...

Unexpected mantle structures hint at ancient or unknown materials, challenging current tectonic theories and prompting deeper ...

A new way of measuring structures deep inside Earth has highlighted numerous previously unknown blobs within our planet's ...

Geophysicists at ETH Zurich are using models of the lower mantle to identify areas where earthquake waves behave differently ...