Abstract: When slivers of continental crust and sediment overlying oceanic lithosphere enter a subduction zone, they may be scraped off at shallow levels, subducted to depths of up to 100–200 km and ...

Earth's surface is a turbulent place. Mountains rise, continents merge and split, and earthquakes shake the ground. All of ...

For example, the North China Craton (NCC), an ancient continental crust block ... and undergoing horizontal subduction into the mantle transition zone. This rollback caused extensional deformation ...

but we do know that we have continental crust that was likely scraped off a down-going slab [a tectonic plate in a subduction zone] that is 3.8 billion years old," Van der Elst said. "We could ...

A handful of regions around the world regularly unleash terrifyingly large earthquakes. Here are the largest earthquakes on ...

Off the coast of Chile and Peru, along the entire western length of South America, the seafloor takes a sharp, steep plunge ...

Current local time in Continental (Chile/Continental timezone). Get information about the Chile/Continental time zone. Local time and date, DST adjusted (where ever daylight saving time is applicable) ...

No one knows exactly when or where an earthquake will strike. But computer simulations are helping scientists and engineers ...

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