Tungsten (W), a hard, heat-resistant, and corrosion-resistant metal, is indispensable to modern high-tech industries—from ...

The Andaman-Nicobar Basin (AN Basin), nestled in the southeastern expanse of the Bay of Bengal, represents a frontier of ...

Tsunami earthquakes are characterized by the generation of disproportionately large tsunamis relative to the observed ground ...

Oceanography, Vol. 32, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE ON SCIENTIFIC OCEAN DRILLING: Looking to the Future (MARCH 2019), pp. 160-174 (15 pages) The association of deep-sea trenches—steeply angled, planar zones ...

“The composition tells us that this came from an island arc, or at least from the same kind of subduction zone process.” That an ordinary-looking rock can reveal a 280-million-year-old story ...

For millions of years, Earth’s shifting plates have shaped continents, formed oceans, and built towering mountain ranges. But ...

In a recent paper published in National Science Review, a jointed team of scholars from China and UK has made significant progress in understanding the genesis of volcanic rocks in subduction ...

When a seamount enters a subduction zone, it has a major affect on forearc morphology, the uplift history of the island arc, and the structure of the downgoing slab. It is not known, however, what ...

Island arcs, which arise from volcanic activity along subduction zones where one tectonic plate dives beneath another, play a crucial role in the formation of the continental crust.

Island arcs, which arise from volcanic activity along subduction zones where one tectonic plate dives beneath another, play a crucial role in the formation of the continental crust. The study sheds ...

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