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

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

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

The North American continent is "dripping" rock into the lower layers of the Earth, new research says, and in the process ...

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

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

A long-lost slab of Earth’s crust may be pulling away the bottom of the oldest part of North America, scientists say ...

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

Earth's rocky layers are mysteriously low in nitrogen compared with carbon and argon. A scientific team explored our planet's molten youth using advanced quantum mechanical simulations, revealing ...

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

As a result, large parts of North America are losing material from the ... which was published March 28 in the journal Nature ...