Something strange is happening beneath the heart of North America. The continent’s ancient core, the craton, is changing ...

where two plates collide and recycle crust. However, recent findings like this necessitate a new framework for understanding oceanic transform faults. "Whenever we go out and make these kinds of ...

They then used a model of the crust and mantle beneath the Aral Sea ... This delayed response in a hot, weak region of the mantle called the asthenosphere is why the uplift is ongoing, even ...

(Representational) A chunk of ancient oceanic crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is pulling parts of North America's crust down into the Earth's mantle, scientists have found. The finding ...

The researchers found that the drips result from the downward dragging force of a chunk of oceanic ... showing how Earth's crust and upper mantle (together known as the lithosphere) could be ...

The researchers found that the drips result from the downward dragging force of a chunk of oceanic crust that broke off from an ancient tectonic plate called the Farallon plate. The Farallon plate ...

The type of lithosphere here is a craton – a particularly large, stable section of Earth's crust that has been around, relatively unchanged, for a very long period of time. Because they are so ...

The type of lithosphere here is a craton – a particularly large, stable section of Earth's crust that has been around, relatively unchanged, for a very long period of time. Because they are so stable, ...

A study published in Nature on 2 April reveals that Earth's first crust, formed about 4.5 billion years ago, probably had chemical features remarkably like today’s continental crust. This ...

A diagram showing how Earth's crust and upper mantle (together known as the lithosphere) could be dripping into the mantle due to the Farallon slab. (Image credit: Hua et al. Nature Geoscience ...