The revolution starts with a poetry reading! Cascadia Democratic Action and Cascadia Poetics Lab invite you to join us for a monthly spoken word and performance series called Subduction. Hosted...

The revolution starts with a poetry reading! Cascadia Democratic Action and Cascadia Poetics Lab invite you to join us for a monthly spoken word and performance series called Subduction. Hosted...

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This work investigates the effect of the 2016 regime shift in Antarctic sea ice on Antarctic Intermediate Water (AAIW). The authors show that decreased sea ice and reduced freshwater subduction lead t...

An international research team led by Göttingen University found that the rock traveled more than 90 kilometers (56 miles) underground about four million years ago. Along the way, it experienced unusually high temperatures at shallower depths before entering conditions associated with a relatively cooler type of subduction. The discovery raises new questions about how heat is distributed inside Earth and how tectonic plates behave as they descend. The findings were published in Nature Geoscience. A Strange Discovery Deep Beneath Earth's Surface Earth's outer shell is divided into enormous tectonic plates that slowly move across the planet. When two plates converge, one can be forced beneath the other and sink into Earth's interior. This process is called "subduction." These regions play a major role in shaping our planet. They are associated with powerful earthquakes and volcanic activity, but they also help regulate Earth's climate over millions of years by recycling materials such as carbon dioxide through the planet's interior. The immense pressure found in subduction zones can transform rocks into a distinctive red and green material known as "eclogite." Researchers examined one of these rocks from Papua New Guinea using several advanced analytical techniques. Inside the rock, they discovered tiny crystals...

In October 2025, scientists at Louisiana State University identified an extraordinary geological phenomenon: an oceanic plate breaking apart within a subduction zone, a process that had never been dir...

Abstract. Arc magmatism is generally attributed to flux melting of the sub-arc mantle previously modified by metasomatism, induced by subduction-derived aq

This work investigates the effect of the 2016 regime shift in Antarctic sea ice on Antarctic Intermediate Water (AAIW). The authors show that decreased sea ice and reduced freshwater subduction lead t...