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

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

The deep roots of Earth's oldest continents have long been thought to be unshakable. But a new seismic discovery suggests that even these stable landmasses can change. Beneath the center of North ...

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics ...

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

Geodynamic models say deep mantle flow from the long-subducted Farallon slab is likely behind the massive underground “drips” ...

As a result, large parts of North America are losing ... A diagram showing how Earth's crust and upper mantle (together known as the lithosphere) could be dripping into the mantle due to the ...

Using samples gathered from the Chang’e-6 mission, scientists found that the interior of the moon on the half we never see ...

A fascinating new study reveals that a massive chunk of Earth’s crust, buried deep beneath the Midwest, is slowly pulling ...

The oldest parts of Earth's continents are called cratons, and underneath, they are rooted to the mantle... | Earth And The ...