Explore how North America is changing as its deep cratonic root thins and pieces are dripping into the Earth's mantle.

Their work, published in Nature Communications on January 10, 2025, opens new perspectives on the dynamics of the Earth's mantle. a ... than expected beneath the boundary between the lithosphere and ...

In the latter case, high temperatures and pressures lead to the reworking of the crust, affecting its ... of the lower continental lithosphere into the mantle, driven by the increased density ...

such as the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary and the Moho (the Mohorovičić discontinuity, which marks the boundary between Earth’s crust and mantle). Consequently, modeling the pathways ...

This course deals with the composition and evolution of the crust, lithospheric mantle and asthenosphere. Seismic imaging techniques ... and present state of the continental as well as oceanic ...

The North American continent is "dripping" rock into the lower layers of the Earth, new research says, and in the process ...

A diagram showing how Earth's crust and upper mantle (together known as the lithosphere) could be dripping into the mantle due to the Farallon slab. (Image credit: Hua et al. Nature Geoscience (2025)) ...

They then used a model of the crust and mantle beneath the Aral ... This delayed response in a hot, weak region of the mantle called the asthenosphere is why the uplift is ongoing, even decades ...

The oldest crust on Earth, known to be unchanging ... representation of that important zone between the deep mantle and the shallower lithosphere where we would expect to get clues on what's ...