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Crushed resistance: Tectonic plate sinking into a subduction zone – Science Daily

Geophysicists can use a new model to explain the behavior of a tectonic plate sinking into a subduction zone in the Earth’s mantle:…

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The Earth’s surface consists of a few large plates and numerous smaller ones that are continuously moving either away from or towards each other at an extremely slow pace. At the boundaries of two plates, the heavier oceanic plate sinks below the lighter…

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