Volatiles are crucial for sustaining life and Earth's habitability, with subduction zones being the main pathways for these ...

For millions of years, Earth’s moving plates have sculpted continents, carved oceans, and built massive mountain ranges. Yet ...

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.

The researchers found that the drips result from the downward dragging force of a chunk of oceanic crust that broke off from an ancient tectonic plate called the Farallon plate. The Farallon plate ...

Scientists found new evidence that Earth’s crust is peeling underneath the Sierra Nevada in California. The process might be how the continents formed, they say.

Cores extracted from the impact crater revealed evidence of an ancient, life-nurturing hydrothermal system in the wake of the ...

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

President Trump’s first budget request is slated to come out later this spring, but agencies are receiving drafts from the ...

(Representational) A chunk of ancient oceanic crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is pulling parts of North America's crust down into the Earth's mantle, scientists have found. The finding ...

However, since 2018, some scientists argue that there is evidence that the oceanic crust is starting to form, as evidenced by samples taken that are distinctly different from continental crust ...