Some researchers speculate that these anomalies could be remnants of a “lost world” beneath the Pacific Ocean, perhaps ...

Earth is the only known planet which has plate tectonics today. The constant movement of these giant slabs of rock over the planet's magma creates continents - and may have even helped create life.

Specifically, they found areas in our planet's interior that appear to be the leftovers of submerged tectonic plates deep below ... be lurking deep below the Pacific Ocean, highlighting how ...

Science is advancing and with it, fascinating and unique things are being discovered, as has happened in the Pacific Ocean. A group of researchers from ETH Zurich and the Californi ...

Geoscientists have used earthquakes to study the composition of the lower portion of the Earth’s mantle under the Pacific Ocean – and ... be portions of tectonic plates that have sunk in ...

At ocean-ocean convergences, one plate usually dives beneath the other, forming deep trenches like the Mariana Trench in the North Pacific Ocean, the deepest point on Earth. These types of ...

Under the Pacific Ocean, hidden material was discovered ... The flow of the fluid is what prompts the movement of tectonic plates on the surface of the Earth, leading to earthquakes, volcanic ...

In an article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) ...

New findings provide a greater understanding of plate subduction, or how tectonic plates slide beneath one another. This recycling of surface materials and volatile elements deep into the Earth's ...

The Atlantic Ocean may begin to shrink ... as they are able to appear and close due to the work of plate tectonics. More specifically, subduction zones — where tectonic plates slip over and ...