An international research collaboration has harnessed supercomputing power to better understand how massive slabs of ancient ocean floors are shaped as they sink hundreds of kilometers below Earth's ...

Visualization of thermal state and slab depth in the Makran Subduction Zone Fig 3 (a) Steady-state thermal structure (°C) at the plate interface calculated in this study. The yellow dashed line M–N ...

Closure of the Neo-Tethys Ocean and the subsequent formation of the Tibetan Plateau is one of the most significant tectonic events on Earth. How the Indian subcontinent drifted northward anomalously ...

A new understanding of our planet's deepest earthquakes could help unravel one of the most mysterious geophysical processes on Earth. A new understanding of our planet's deepest earthquakes could help ...