subduction

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Their combined results point to a far livelier early Earth, suggesting that widespread subduction and the growth of continental crust may have begun several hundred million years earlier than earlier theories proposed.

From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2025

The study revealed that subduction zones don't fail in one catastrophic break but die in stages, through a process known as "episodic" or "piecewise" termination.

From Science Daily • Oct. 25, 2025

For years, researchers suspected these fragments were evidence of dying subduction zones, but the exact mechanism was unclear.

From Science Daily • Oct. 25, 2025

New research offers the theory that the San Andreas fault and the Cascadia subduction zone could produce devastating back-to-back earthquake disasters.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2025

Just off its east coast, deep beneath the seafloor, giant chunks of Earth’s lithosphere and crust are being sucked beneath the country in a process called subduction.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland