Two Continent-Sized 'Blobs' Hidden Deep Inside Earth's Mantle Continue To Baffle Scientists From Decades Earth and many of ...

A chunk of ancient oceanic crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is pulling parts of North America's crust down into the ...

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

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

Scientists have warned that the crust of the Earth beneath the US is 'dripping' away, which sounds quite concerning but is ...

The study also provides a new approach to solving one of the biggest enduring scientific mysteries: when did plate tectonics ...

Earth’s interior can be divided into several layers: the crust, the mantle, the liquid outer core, and the solid inner core ...

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...

Lithospheric dripping occurs when the underside of Earth's rocky crust is heated to a certain temperature. As the rock melts, ...

Researchers have discovered cratonic thinning occurring beneath North America, driven by the remnants of the Farallon Plate.

An ancient slab of Earth's crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is sucking huge swatches of present-day's North American crust down into the mantle, researchers say. The slab's pull has created giant ...