Scientists found new evidence that Earth’s crust is peeling underneath the Sierra Nevada in California. The process might be ...

Scientists discovered Earth's first crust had continental chemical signatures. This challenges beliefs about when these ...

The oldest crust on Earth, known to be unchanging, is actually being altered in real time. The North American continent is ...

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

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

A long-lost slab of Earth’s crust may be pulling away the bottom of the oldest part of North America, scientists say ...

The study also provides a new approach to solving one of the biggest enduring scientific mysteries: when did plate tectonics begin?

Deep beneath the mountains of the Himalayas, something remarkable is taking place. The vast, rocky plate supporting India, ...

Deep beneath the surface of our planet, from the Himalayas to East Africa and from the Atlantic seafloor to the Indian Ocean, ...

A study by Chinese scientists in October of last year detailed how one of the oldest pieces of continental crust—the North ... the mantle due to a subducting oceanic slab known as the Farallon ...

The deep roots of Earth's oldest continents have long been thought to be unshakable. But a new seismic discovery suggests that even these stable landmasses can change. Beneath the center of North ...