North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, ...

Water from both volcanic rocks and deep mantle melted Earth's crust 1.6 billion years ago. This long-lasting melting formed ...

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

Critically, oceanic core complexes—unique to slow-spreading ridges—are reinterpreted as diapirs of buoyant serpentinites, reshaping understanding of crust-mantle interactions.

As you read this, the North American continent’s underside is dribbling away into Earth’s molten mantle. And according to ...

Any imbalance indicates that the missing crust likely sinks into the mantle ... including the loss of continental margin with the detached oceanic slab, continental subduction and dripping ...

Scientists found new evidence that Earth’s crust is peeling underneath the Sierra Nevada in California. The process might be how the continents formed, they say.

The oldest crust on Earth, known to be unchanging, is actually being altered in real time. The North American continent is ...

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

The paper advocates drilling intact oceanic crust to determine the Moho's petrological nature and resolve crustal composition misconceptions, ...

A map showing seismic speed in Earth’s crust at 125 miles depth across the continental U.S. and portions of Central America and Canada. The North American craton (outlined in black dashes) has a ...