This early rocky shell featured chemical signatures previously thought to occur only in continental crusts made by the ...

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

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

The North American continent is "dripping" rock into the lower layers of the Earth, new research says, and in the process ...

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

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

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface ...

The deep roots of Earth's oldest continents have long been thought to be unshakable. But a new seismic discovery suggests that even these stable landmasses can change. Beneath the center of North ...

The Farallon plate and the North American plate once formed a subduction ... adding that it may even stop as the Farallon ...

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

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