Scientists have long thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see ...

Researchers have discovered cratonic thinning occurring beneath North America, driven by the remnants of the Farallon Plate.

Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American continent is dripping away in blobs of rock—and that the ...

But don't worry, the continent isn't about to collapse. These are incredibly slow geological processes, happening over ...

Beneath the crust of North America, scientists have found that the deep roots of the continent are slowly dripping away in ...

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...

Lithospheric dripping occurs when the underside of Earth's rocky crust is heated to a certain temperature. As the rock melts, ...

This week, researchers reported on nine rivers and lakes in the Americas that defy hydrologic expectations. Geologists report ...

Scientists have warned that the crust of the Earth beneath the US is 'dripping' away, which sounds quite concerning but is ...

The Earth’s mantle, stretching up to 1,800 miles thick and making up a whopping 84% of the planet’s volume, used to be ...

Plate temperature and water release can explain the occurrence of different types of earthquakes in Guerrera, Mexico. The Kobe University simulation ...