New subduction zone in the area of Portugal
Text created by automatic translator Elia and has not been subsequently revised by translators. Elia Elhuyar
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In the Atlantic, in the vicinity of Portugal, the geologists of the University of Monash have detected the first indications that an area that so far has been a passive continental arista begins to be active. As they have published in the journal Geology, this would open a new cycle in which Europe and America are approaching.
In the subduction zones a plate is introduced under the other. In this case, this would mean a decrease in the Atlantic. When analyzing the marine bottom of the southwest of the Iberian plate, the researchers found that the bottom is beginning to break, indicating a tectonic activity. What they have discovered has been described by researcher Joao Duarte as the “embryo of a subduction field” in the percussion note that has opened the University of Monash.Zu idazle
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