Subduction zones are the most important sites of material exchange between the crust and mantle on Earth. They are also the ...

The modern understanding of the plate tectonic cycle predicts that remnants of submerged plates will be found near subduction zones. However, a new high-resolution model shows that these remnants ...

A subduction zone, composed of the deep Aleutian Trench coupled with a landward line of volcanoes, creates a series of offshore islands (the Aleutians) as well as a line of volcanoes along the ...

The Tonga Subduction Zone, characterized by the world’s fastest plate convergence (~24 cm/year) and back-arc spreading rates, serves as a natural laboratory for studying plate-mantle interactions.