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Keywords: convergent plate boundary, oceanic subduction, continental collision, lithospheric deformation, mantle flow, geodynamics Important note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be ...

thermo-mechanical evolution of the lithosphere and upper mantle (in particular the subduction process), earthquake generation and seismic energy release, tectonic processes along convergent plate ...

This study revealed that oceanic plates can be trapped in the continental lithosphere, highlighting the importance of oceanic plate subduction for continental ... such as the boundaries that divide ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But do other planets in the solar system have them too?

An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the ...

Geophysicists have found sunken worlds in the Earth’s mantle — the planet’s bulky middle layer — that, according to both earlier imaging and understanding of plate tectonics ... though there is no ...

Getty Images/Pedro H. Tesch Coming off a victory over Internacional last week, Mexico visit River Plate at the Estadio Monumental in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to put an end to their adventure in ...

Your previous comments and creations regarding borders and boundaries have significantly influenced my own practice. I, too, have been entangled with the 'twirling, twisting iron cord, spiky ...