Host Dave Schlom visits with UC Davis Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences geophysics professor Magali Billen to talk about one of Earth's most dynamic and complex processes, subduction.
Subduction zones are found throughout the Pacific Basin, and off the coast of Northern California to Canada is the Cascadia Subduction Zone.
Professor Billen has been creating a 3-D computer model of Cascadia and shares her insights into how subduction creates volcanoes like the Cascades as well as being capable of unleashing the most destructive and largest magnitude earthquakes the planet is capable of.
It's a fascinating and deep dive from crustal plates into the Earth's mantle with one of the world's foremost experts on the topic!
