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

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

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.

A fascinating new study reveals that a massive chunk of Earth’s crust, buried deep beneath the Midwest, is slowly pulling ...

A massive eruption of magma around 135 million years ago may have been the driving force behind the tectonic rift that split ...

This water, which is carried to such depths by subducting tectonic slabs ... Intraplate volcanism, or volcanism occurring away from plate boundaries, can provide clues about which areas of ...

The number plate DD5 was sold for a staggering Dh35 million at the ‘Most Noble Number’ auction held on Saturday evening in Dubai. Starting at a base price of Dh15 million, the plate saw more ...

While the roles they play during the hydrocarbon generation and reservoir formation remain poorly understood, yet a detailed inspection of their geochemical features within the corresponding tectonic ...

We utilized interpreted plate deformation as a proxy for plate flexural deformation through a series of modeling procedures. Sediment buoyancy reduces plate pressure, which can hinder seafloor ...

(BDN) -- Maine is about to get its first major license plate update since Bill Clinton sat in the Oval Office. Since 1999, the standard Maine license plate has featured a chickadee — the artwork ...