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 ...

Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.

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

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

New research is reshaping how scientists understand the earliest days of Earth’s formation—suggesting that the deep interior ...

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

The mantle transition zone (MTZ), which occurs 410–670 kilometers below Earth's surface, may store several oceans' worth of water. This water, which is carried to such depths by subducting ...

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 ...

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 ...

A diagram showing how Earth's crust and upper mantle (together known as the lithosphere) could be dripping into the mantle due to the Farallon slab. (Image credit: Hua et al. Nature Geoscience ...