Situated on the west coast of the island of Newfoundland, the park provides a rare example of the process of continental drift, where deep ocean crust and the rocks of the earth's mantle lie exposed.

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

The crust is the outside layer of the planet and it's made of solid rock - there are two types of crust, which are oceanic and continental. The mantle is hot, dense, iron and magnesium-rich solid ...