Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics ...

New research reveals a surprising link between the ancient tectonic history of oceanic plates and their fate as they subduct ...

This hidden geological layer, located between 254 and 410 miles (410 and 660 kilometers) beneath the Earth’s surface, covers ...

Large distributions of basalt rock compositions within the MTZ can cause subducting plates -- ones that slide beneath other -- to slow and/or stagnate within this zone, instead of descending ...

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

North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, into the Earth's mantle below. This is the conclusion of researchers from ...

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

The 7.7-magnitude earthquake that rocked Myanmar and Thailand on March 28 is a chilling reminder for everyone to start taking ...

Lithospheric dripping occurs when the underside of Earth's rocky crust is heated to a certain temperature. As the rock melts, ...