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Scientists have discovered the "fossilized fingerprint" of a chunk of seafloor that was hiding beneath the Pacific Ocean in Earth's mantle. A new study shows that this fingerprint corresponds to a ...

Slab pull occurs where older, denser tectonic plates sink into the mantle at subduction zones. As these older sections of plates sink, newer and less dense sections of plate are pulled along behind.

Researchers at Jilin University have achieved a major milestone by generating ultrahigh pressures at high temperatures in a ...

Unlike standard subduction, in which a tectonic plate descends beneath another plate into Earth, flat slab subduction is ... descending farther into Earth's mantle. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!