Volatiles are crucial for sustaining life and Earth's habitability, with subduction zones being the main pathways for these ...

For millions of years, Earth’s moving plates have sculpted continents, carved oceans, and built massive mountain ranges. Yet ...

Scientists found new evidence that Earth’s crust is peeling underneath the Sierra Nevada in California. The process might be how the continents formed, they say.

Yet some of these giant structures vanished deep into the mantle, hidden from view ... subduction happened radially outward, as oceanic plates plunged beneath continental edges.

As you read this, the North American continent’s underside is dribbling away into Earth’s molten mantle. And according to ...

This distinct layer within the mantle would also explain ... which is when an oceanic plate sinks beneath a less dense plate, such as continental crust, and changes the landscape, said Mitchell ...