The oldest crust on Earth, known to be unchanging, is actually being altered in real time. The North American continent is ...

Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

Scientists have discovered that a portion of the North American craton is slowly dripping into Earth's mantle, challenging ...

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

As the Aral Sea has been drained by irrigation and dried up, the mass loss on the surface has caused Earth’s upper mantle to ...

Scientists found new evidence that Earth’s crust is peeling underneath the Sierra Nevada in California. The process might be ...

Astronomers can't believe it: a new planet discovered unlike anything seen ... that has provided impressive details about the Earth's mantle For a long time, the Earth's mantle was thought to ...

Additionally, the discovery of two “giant blobs” deep inside the Earth has sparked debates among experts about how and why ...

A diagram showing how Earth's crust and upper mantle (together known as the lithosphere ... documented cratonic thinning as it occurs. The discovery was possible thanks to a wider project led ...

Scientists have discovered that a portion of the North American craton is slowly dripping into Earth's mantle, challenging the idea that these ancient crustal structures are immovable. Seismic ...

Beneath the crust of North America, scientists have found that the deep roots of the continent are slowly dripping away in ...