The modern understanding of the plate tectonic cycle predicts that remnants of submerged plates will be found near subduction zones. However, a new high-resolution model shows that these remnants ...

Four types of plate tectonic activity are demonstrated in this feature. Keep an eye on the map to see where in the world the activity takes place. Also known as spreading boundary, a divergent ...

geochemical and geophysical ways that are part of the plate tectonic cycle. In regions of convergence, one plate can sink under another in a subduction zone, or two colliding plates can form a ...

Pressure from a pool of magma has just cracked solid rock, creating a volcano-tectonic ... at plate boundaries, such as the San Andreas fault and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge). VT events cycle as ...

Elements of a newly discovered process in plate tectonics include a mass (rock slab weight), a pulley (trench), a dashpot (microcontinent), and a string (oceanic plate) that connects these ...

A team of researchers led by Dr. Frank Zwaan, a scientist in the Geodynamic Modeling section at GFZ Helmholtz Center for Geosciences, present an answer to this question: using plate tectonic ...

Seismology has previously revealed that tectonic plates move, causing strain energy to build up, and that energy eventually ...

according to the Wilson Cycle. Much of this movement is caused by subduction zones which are "places where one tectonic plate sinks below another," a statement by the study authors said.