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Subduction, a crucial geological process on Earth, may have begun hundreds of millions of years earlier than traditionally ...

Subduction vs. collision In oceanic subduction, material in the subsurface is recycled into the Earth’s mantle when the cooler, heavier plate dives under a continental plate and sinks.

While continental collision results in continental accretion through marginal orogeny, intercontinental orogens are converted to intracontinental orogens. The deeply subducted continental crust is ...

Crater and the Continental Collision This image from ESA’s Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite shows the Ouarkziz crater in the Anti-Atlas mountains bordering the Sahara Desert in western Algeria.

The research contributes to an ongoing debate over the structure of the Himalaya collision zone, the only place on Earth where continental plates continue crashing today - and the source of ...

Researchers may have found a new clue that could help identify sites capable of yielding vast amounts of valuable pink diamonds. It is known that there needs to be carbon deep in the Earth for the ...