water trapped in the sinking rock causes the volcanic eruptions that created (and continue to change) the Mariana Islands. Challenger Deep, the deepest of the Mariana Trench's three "pools," was ...

Though please refrain from overt discussion of the Mariana Trench. We are, after all, a volcano blog. 2024 Record: 78-84, 3rd place in the AL West Key Additions: C Kyle Higashioka, DH/OF Joc ...

This shallow flow aligns with geochemical evidence of plume-derived signatures in the basin’s northern volcanic zones ... Within the subducting slab, near-trench-parallel fast shear-wave ...

At the end of December 2023, it was revealed that researchers had dredged up sediment from the Mariana Trench and isolated a new virus ... by NASA’s Magellan spacecraft has revealed an active volcano ...

Scientists have mapped the deep forces at play beneath the Tonga Subduction Zone, exposing how mantle plumes, subducting slabs, and tectonic shifts fuel volcanic activity and ... Within the subducting ...

The vast Mariana Archipelago, stretching 800 kilometers across the western Pacific Ocean, consists of islands and small reefs of coral-volcanic origin ... the island's east coast lies the famous ...

Deep-sea fish adapt to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. New research analyzing their evolution finds the same ...

A team of Chinese scientists has developed a miniature 2.7-kilogram deep-sea robot to explore the deepest natural frontier on ...

Chinese researchers develop a shape-shifting robot that swims, crawls, and glides at 10,600m depths, aiding deep-sea research ...