North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, ...

As the Aral Sea has been drained by irrigation and dried up, the mass loss on the surface has caused Earth’s upper mantle to rise up, lifting the emptied sea bed an average of 7 millimetres per year ...

Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.

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

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

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 ...

However, because hydrated slabs enter the mantle in different locations and with different speeds, shapes, and sizes, researchers expect that water isn’t distributed evenly throughout the zone.

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 ...

“We were at war with a dictator; now we are fighting against a dictator supported by a traitor.” Thus, in a brilliant speech, did Claude Malhuret, hitherto a little-known French senator ...

Mantle Ridge LP raised its stakes in Cognizant to more than $1 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal. Mantle Ridge has not disclosed its stake in the IT services provider. Considering it ...