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

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.

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 ...

Geologists have made certain assumptions about how the crust making up our planet's earliest surface formed, but a new study ...

A chunk of ancient oceanic crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is pulling parts of North America's crust down into the ...

A fascinating new study reveals that a massive chunk of Earth’s crust, buried deep beneath the Midwest, is slowly pulling ...

When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a ...

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Geodynamic models say deep mantle flow from the long-subducted Farallon slab is likely behind the massive underground “drips” ...

A recent study challenges previous geological assumptions, revealing that Earth's initial protocrust closely resembled the ...

causing changes extending all the way down to Earth’s upper mantle, the layer beneath the planet’s crust. This is probably the deepest recorded example of human activity changing the solid ...