Modern continental rocks carry chemical signatures from the very start of our planet's history, challenging current theories about plate tectonics.

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

Just when things couldn't get any crazier in the US, scientists have discovered that the underside of the Earth's crust is ...

Earth is the only known planet which has plate tectonics today. The constant movement of these giant slabs of rock over the ...

Beneath the American Midwest, on the continent of North America, the underside of Earth's crust is dripping into the ...

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

Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

It’s here that Barbara Sherwood Lollar, a hydrogeologist at the University of Toronto, journeys into the planet’s crust to hunt for signs of life. “You get into a small truck or vehicle and go down a ...

Earth's crust, or the outermost shell of the planet ... Devika Rao has worked as a staff writer at The Week since 2022, covering science, the environment, climate and business.

In some way which, as yet, we understand but vaguely, both igneous and denudational differentiation then combined in developing the earth's crust. We now find in the latter all those rocks which ...

Beyond the outer core lies the mantle, a 1,800-mile-thick layer of viscous molten rock on which Earth's outermost layer, the crust, rests. On land, the continental crust is an average of 19 miles ...

Deformation and mass transport depend critically on the rheologic properties (i.e., strength) of the crust and mantle. Thus, any quantitative study of active tectonics requires a thorough ...