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 ...

The oldest crust on Earth, known to be unchanging ... the continent and is "both redirecting the flow of material in the mantle such that it is wearing away the bottom of the North American ...

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 ...

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

Researchers have proposed many origins for a gravity anomaly in Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, but the latest evidence ...

New findings provide a greater understanding of plate subduction, or how tectonic plates slide beneath one another. This ...

Deep beneath the surface of our planet, from the Himalayas to East Africa and from the Atlantic seafloor to the Indian Ocean, ...

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. Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American ...