Some researchers speculate that these anomalies could be remnants of a “lost world” beneath the Pacific Ocean, perhaps ...

Hidden deep beneath the Pacific Ocean, researchers have uncovered ... What they found was unexpected—zones resembling ancient tectonic plates in areas where no subduction processes occur.

Science is advancing and with it, fascinating and unique things are being discovered, as has happened in the Pacific Ocean. A group of researchers from ETH Zurich and the Californi ...

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 ...

Geoscientists have used earthquakes to study the composition of the lower portion of the Earth’s mantle under the Pacific Ocean – and ... be portions of tectonic plates that have sunk in ...

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 ...

This fault is located in the Pacific Northwest ... In simpler terms, it could cause the tectonic plates under the ocean and those under the continental United States to lock, creating stress ...

In an article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) ...

A team presents new details of an oceanic transform fault at the Gofar fault in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The work reveals unexpected brine deposits beneath the seafloor near the fault, which could ...

New findings provide a greater understanding of plate subduction, or how tectonic plates slide beneath one another. This recycling of surface materials and volatile elements deep into the Earth's ...

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any ... Mantle plumes can stay fixed in place for millions of years while tectonic plates move slowly above them. As a plate drifts ...