Earthquakes. A short video for 11-14 year old pupils, exploring tectonic activity and earthquakes and featuring case studies ...

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

Our observations showed that above the layer with the shatter cones was a thick layer of basalt with no evidence of ... segregation and migration of melt in the lithosphere. Professor Chris Kirkland ...

"This process involves the rapid sinking or detachment of the lower continental lithosphere into the mantle ... Imagine a piece of floating wood with an iron layer attached beneath it, which ...

Researchers have discovered an unexpected superconducting transition in extremely thin films of niobium diselenide (NbSe2).

Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American continent is dripping away in blobs of rock—and that the ...

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

Geodynamic models say deep mantle flow from the long-subducted Farallon slab is likely behind the massive underground “drips” ...