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.

A subduction zone, composed of the deep Aleutian ... This zone marks the interface where the denser Pacific oceanic plate subducts beneath the less dense continental North American plate.

Initially, subduction of the shallowly-dipping oceanic Izanagi plate (flat-slab subduction) from the east led to thickening of the overriding NCC crust of the Eurasian plate as it was shortened ...

Deep trenches appear at these boundaries, caused by the oceanic plate bending downward into the Earth. Deep below the Earth's surface, subduction causes partial melting of both the ocean crust and ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...