Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust above it to "drip" and suck down rocks from across the continent.

In fact, scientists believe that a plume of hot rocks that burst from the Earth's mantle millions of years ago could be an important part in the story of human evolution. What roils beneath the ...

Until now, the scientific community debated the starting point of liquid mantle solidification: did it begin deep within the ...

Researchers are now trying to understand the "innermost inner core" of the Earth by studying how seismic waves travel through ...

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. | Credit: Hua et al. Nature Geoscience (2025 ...

Central Asia's desiccated Aral Sea is steadily rising as Earth's mantle beneath it bulges, new research suggests. The uplift is due to the "quiet Chernobyl" environmental disaster that struck the ...

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

its ancient bedrock is slowly dripping into the Earth’s mantle. This dripping has created a funnel-like structure concentrated over the Midwest of the United States, horizontally pulling the ...