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points to the Farallon slab, a segment of oceanic crustthat broke off from the main tectonic plate millions of years ago. This ancient slab, once part of a subduction zone along the continent’s ...

Once part of a massive subduction zone along America’s west coast, the Farallon plate slid beneath the North American plate for tens of millions of years. Around 20 million years ago ...

The Farallon plate and the North American plate once formed a subduction zone along the continent's west coast, with the former sliding beneath the latter and recycling its material into the mantle.

This slow geological movement forced the Farallon plate under North America, a process called subduction. Much of the Farallon plate got pushed down into the mantle, the flowing layer below the ...

Geophysicists already knew that there were two plates in the Pacific at that time, the Kula plate and the Farallon plate ... Earth's crust in a process called subduction. Wu and Fuston used ...