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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Like a mosquito tunneling into the skin to get at the rich feast within, geologists poked a long, narrow drill into Earth's crust ...

Crinkles and divots in the surface of Earth on Türkiye's Central Anatolian Plateau are the smoking gun for a newly discovered class of plate tectonics. Beneath a depression called the Konya Basin, ...

The Earth's mantle might not always move along in lockstep with the overlying tectonic crust—as set out in science textbooks for decades—but may instead behave differently. This is the conclusion of ...

All the activity on Earth’s surface — erupting volcanoes, shifting tectonic plates, restless seas and myriad forms of life — depends on the two-part engine under the hood. Directly beneath Earth’s ...

The King's Trough Complex is a several-hundred-kilometer-long, canyon-like system of trenches on the North Atlantic seafloor.

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust above it to "drip" and suck down rocks from across the continent. When you ...