The oldest crust on Earth, known to be unchanging, is actually being altered in real time. The North American continent is "dripping" rock into the lower layers of the Earth, new research says, and in ...

For millions of years, Earth’s moving plates have sculpted continents, carved oceans, and built massive mountain ranges. Yet ...

An international team has identified a novel mechanism: "drops" of rock detaching from Earth's crust and plunging into the mantle ... continental evolution. The key role of an ancient oceanic ...

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

Volatiles are crucial for sustaining life and Earth's habitability, with subduction zones being the main pathways for these ...

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

This distinct layer within the mantle would also explain ... which is when an oceanic plate sinks beneath a less dense plate, such as continental crust, and changes the landscape, said Mitchell ...

And some of it flows underneath the oceanic crust to fill the space being created by that lightening, rising continental crust. All this moving mantle rock is, in turn, replaced by the upward flow ...

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

New research suggests melting ice sheets are warming global temperatures which may speed up continental drift, creating ...

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.