Unlike standard subduction, in which a tectonic plate descends beneath another plate into Earth, flat slab subduction is a process in which a tectonic plate descends to depths of about 30 to 60 ...

Scientists observed subduction as well as a process known as flat-slab rollback, which is "when the subducting plate retreats back to the surface." The processes led to the lithosphere ...

The results offer new perspectives on the behavior of subduction zones, particularly in regions where significant seismic events occur due to slab dehydration and other related processes.

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

Geologists term this flat-slab subduction and are still researching exactly why it occurs, but a consequence is that the shallow subducting plate pushes crust and mantle material ahead of it ...

But how do they form and why are they concentrated there? (A) Diagram of a subduction zone illustrating the transfer of gold and sulfur from the subducting slab through the mantle to the upper crust ...

The Cascadia subduction zone, where the oceanic Juan de Fuca plate descends beneath the overlying North American plate, extends 1100 km from northern California to northern Vancouver Island.

I am presently consumed by two separate programs of research: 1) the geological evolution of northern Yukon, and 2) the consequences of ridge subduction and slab window formation. I collaborate with a ...