Some recent studies reproduced key geophysical factors in a laboratory setting, including a rising plume and
a sinking oceanic plate.
Not exact matches
The Sea of Okhotsk earthquake may have involved re-rupture of a fault in the
plate produced when the
oceanic plate bent down into the Kuril - Kamchatka subduction zone as it began to
sink.
At subduction zones such as these, an
oceanic tectonic
plate sinks (subducts) into the Earth's interior, the mantle.
To understand how water affects subduction of the
oceanic plate, in which layers of different rock types
sink into the mantle, the UO team studied hydrogen isotopes in water contained in tiny blobs of glass trapped in olivine crystals in basalt.
Since, if I remember correctly, subduction generally occurs when a dense
oceanic plate dives under a less dense continental
plate, you'd have to get the waste to the seafloor and then bury it there in such a way that it wouldn't leak into the water before it
sank deep enough into the Earth to be safely forgotten about.