For the first time, scientists have watched a subduction zone literally fall apart beneath the ocean floor. Using advanced ...

The undersea plate boundary beneath the Strait of Gibraltar, known as the Gibraltar arc, is slowly moving into the Atlantic ...

For the first time, scientists have seen a subduction zone actively breaking apart beneath the Pacific Northwest. Seismic data show the oceanic plate tearing into fragments, forming microplates in a ...

Ancient tectonic plates continue to reshape the Earth's interior and reveal a deep connection to its global dynamics ...