With their election to the prestigious honor society, eight members of the Brown University faculty join the nation’s leading ...

For decades, scientists debated whether the Indian Plate was simply underplating — slipping beneath Tibet’s crust — or ...

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

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.

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

This delayed response in a hot, weak region of the mantle called the asthenosphere is why the uplift is ongoing, even decades after the water was removed, he says. Rebound in the upper mantle is ...