The land beneath the former Aral Sea in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan is rising and will continue to do so for many decades. Now, ...

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

The oldest crust on Earth, known to be unchanging ... the continent and is "both redirecting the flow of material in the mantle such that it is wearing away the bottom of the North American ...

Partial melting of the Earth's mantle is one of the most fundamental ... of different source components determines their melting characteristics and the extent to which their isotopic signatures ...

The Earth is made up of different layers ... Slab pull occurs where older, denser tectonic plates sink into the mantle at subduction zones. As these older sections of plates sink, newer and ...

It creates the Earth's magnetic field and is about 1,400 miles (2,300 kilometers) thick. The next layer is the mantle. Many people think of this as lava, but it's actually rock. The rock is so hot ...

New research sheds light on the earliest days of the earth's formation and potentially calls into question some earlier assumptions in planetary science about the early years of rocky planets.

The mantle transition zone (MTZ), which occurs 410–670 kilometers below Earth's surface, may store several oceans' worth of water. This water, which is carried to such depths by subducting ...

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 ...

But as a result of being the most ancient pieces of Earth’s lithosphere (containing the crust and uppermost mantle), they aren’t subjected to nearly as much geologic dynamism as is found ...