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Some of the strongest earthquakes that people experience occur along subduction zones.
WHAT CAN ‘SILENT EARTHQUAKES’ TEACH US ABOUT THE NEXT BIG ONE?JOANNA WENDELNOVEMBER 11, 2021SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTSIn New Zealand, where Wallace works, earthquakes do indeed occur during slow-slip events along this region’s subduction zones.
WHAT CAN ‘SILENT EARTHQUAKES’ TEACH US ABOUT THE NEXT BIG ONE?JOANNA WENDELNOVEMBER 11, 2021SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTSThe Mariana Trench, the deepest point in the world, occurs in a subduction zone.
KILAUEA IS ERUPTING IN HAWAII. HERE ARE 7 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT VOLCANOES.UMAIR IRFANSEPTEMBER 30, 2021VOXKane, for instance, points out that a planet’s habitability is guided by a number of factors, including plate tectonics and subduction—a process that recycles carbon from the atmosphere into the planet’s interior—and its atmospheric chemistry.
NASA IS ENDING ITS 30-YEAR VENUS DROUGHT WITH TWO NEW MISSIONSNEEL V. PATELJUNE 2, 2021MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWThey base this on tiny, 4-billion-year-old crystals whose chemistry resembles that of modern rocks produced in subduction zones.
SCIENTISTS PIN DOWN WHEN EARTH’S CRUST CRACKED, THEN CAME TO LIFEHOWARD LEEMARCH 25, 2021QUANTA MAGAZINESubduction zones are found where one plate overrides, or subducts, another, pushing it downward into the mantle where it melts.
EARTHQUAKESKAYE M. SHEDLOCKThere are three types of plate boundaries: spreading zones, transform faults, and subduction zones.
EARTHQUAKESKAYE M. SHEDLOCKMost faulting along spreading zones is normal, along subduction zones is thrust, and along transform faults is strike-slip.
EARTHQUAKESKAYE M. SHEDLOCKAnd from hence lastly doth arise the solidity of the section, by addition and subduction.
THE WAY TO GEOMETRYPETER RAMUSThe lines with barbs show zones of underthrusting (subduction), where one plate is sliding beneath another.
VOLCANOESROBERT I. TILLINGWORDS RELATED TO SUBDUCTION
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