In a nutshell A massive hot rock plume from Earth’s mantle helped create a land bridge between Africa and Asia 20 million ...

As you read this, the North American continent’s underside is dribbling away into Earth’s molten mantle. And according to ...

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

In general, Texas is not very seismically active because it's not situated near tectonic plate boundaries, though some ...

Lithospheric dripping occurs when the underside of Earth's rocky crust is heated to a certain temperature. As the rock melts, a drop starts to form, eventually becoming weighty enough to break off and ...

New findings provide a greater understanding of plate subduction, or how tectonic plates slide beneath one another. This recycling of surface materials and volatile elements deep into the Earth's ...

A paper published in Nature Geoscience describes the phenomenon, which was discovered at The University of Texas at Austin ... dripping can influence how tectonic plates evolve over time ...

Pressure from a pool of magma has just cracked solid rock, creating a volcano-tectonic (VT) event. This type of quake produces relatively high-frequency shaking, usually between one and five ...

Scientists had posited that there was something beneath the North American craton causing the drips, and that something ...

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...