Two giant tears found in tectonic plate under Iran

Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers discovered two massive tears in the Arabian Plate beneath southeastern Iran. Using 69 seismic stations, they detected a horizontal tear where the Zagros collision zone meets the Makran subduction zone, and a smaller vertical one near the Makran Trench. The tears, caused by contrasting rock densities, offer rare insight into how oceans disappear as continents collide.