Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

Two Buried Supercontinents Under Africa and the Pacific Ocean Could Be Much Older Than Previously Assumed Earth has several ...

According to this model, submerged tectonic plates should be found near subduction zones ... researchers identified abnormal zones beneath the western Pacific Ocean, far from any known subduction zone ...

Specifically, they found areas in our planet's interior that appear to be the leftovers of submerged tectonic plates deep below ... be lurking deep below the Pacific Ocean, highlighting how ...

At ocean-ocean convergences, one plate usually dives beneath the other, forming deep trenches like the Mariana Trench in the North Pacific Ocean, the deepest point on Earth. These types of ...

To find out, the team used whole-Earth oscillation data from 104 past earthquakes to create a detailed 3D model of the upper ...

Also known as the Circum-Pacific Belt, the Ring of Fire traces the meeting points of many tectonic plates, including the ... This movement results in deep ocean trenches, volcanic eruptions ...

These ancient buried "super-continents"—known to scientists as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs)—were found lurking below Africa and the Pacific Ocean, entombed some 1,200 miles below the ...

The Atlantic Ocean may begin to shrink ... as they are able to appear and close due to the work of plate tectonics. More specifically, subduction zones — where tectonic plates slip over and ...

Experts say portions of the continent are pulling apart, creating the possibility that the Horn of Africa will become an island.

While the Atlantic expands, the Pacific Ocean, meanwhile, is shrinking. Every year, it shrinks by about two-and-half centimetres as the tectonic plates that the Americas sit on are pushed westward.