Sedimentation along convergent plate margins, the destructive sites of tectonic plate collision, is poorly understood. Malatestaet al.use a cutting-edge three-dimensional subduction model to ...

Subduction of old and heavy oceanic lithosphere provides the fundamental forces of plate motions and deformations on our planet. Yet how these drive continental tectonics to form giant mountain ...

Tectonics of convergent plate margins: New insights into continental geology. Science China Press. Journal Science China Earth Sciences DOI 10.1007/s11430-022-9947-6 ...

Tectonics of convergent plate margins: New insights into continental geology. Science China Press. Journal Science China Earth Sciences DOI 10.1007/s11430-022-9947-6 ...

“To date, supercycles have been observed only in subduction zones with a larger-than-average seismogenic zone about 110 km across,” says Herrendörfer. Based on their findings, the ETH researchers have ...

My regular readers are going to need some context and backstory to what motivated writing this series of posts. It’s a three-part series — here is Part 2 and Part 3. I recently had an exchange ...

Subduction zones are convergent boundaries of tectonic plates, areas where plates move towards and against each other. These convergent boundaries also include continental collision zones such ...

Lithospheric plates collide at convergent boundaries. Here, the less dense oceanic lithosphere subducts below the continental plate, and releases an abundance of water due to a progressive ...

Note: This is the second post in a three-part series — Part 1 from earlier today is required reading. Without it you will have no context for most of this post. After reading this, go to Part 3.

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Subduction zones also spawn the biggest earthquakes on the planet, as in Japan, Chile and Alaska. ... i.e. a new convergent plate boundary is forming," Duarte said.