Geoscientists from the University of Toronto have made a breakthrough discovery that adds new dimensions to the theory of ...

Continental and oceanic plates all fit together to form the outer crust of the planet. Eight major plates are named on the diagram below. Heat from the core makes magma in the mantle rise towards ...

where two plates collide and recycle crust. However, recent findings like this necessitate a new framework for understanding oceanic transform faults. "Whenever we go out and make these kinds of ...

The researchers found that the drips result from the downward dragging force of a chunk of oceanic crust that broke off from an ancient tectonic plate called the Farallon plate. The Farallon plate ...

Deep trenches appear at these boundaries, caused by the oceanic plate bending downward into the Earth. Deep below the Earth's surface, subduction causes partial melting of both the ocean crust and ...

(Representational) A chunk of ancient oceanic crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is pulling parts of North America's crust down into the Earth's mantle, scientists have found. The finding ...

A team of researchers has made strides in understanding the formation of massif-type anorthosites ... were rich in melts derived from oceanic crust altered by seawater at low temperatures.

Drewitt, J. W. E., Walter, M. J., Zhang, H., McMahon, S. C., Edwards, D., Heinen, B. J., Lord, O. T., Anzellini, S., & Kleppe, A. K. (2019). The fate of carbonate in ...