I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our ...

This is a schematic showing how subduction drives the 'Tethyan One-way Train' between terminals of Gondwana and Eurasia. a. After consumption of mid-ocean ridge, subduction dragging causes the ...

When rifting is successful, the new ocean basin gets wider and wider. New ocean floor is generated at the diverging boundary, and the edges of the now-split continents get farther apart. The now fully ...