The bold question-askers at What If forecast the distant future of Earth’s continents and whether they might sink into the ...

Earth's crust once formed a dense "root" supporting Colombia's northern Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains, but new research suggests this prop sank into the mantle millions of years ago.

Geoscientists have made an unprecedented achievement on their 60-year quest to know more about Earth's mysterious depths. Pieces of Earth’s rocky mantle were collected by a drilling vessel ...

Earth's crust may "drip" into its middle layer under growing mountain ranges. This odd process, called lithospheric dripping, has been proposed to occur under the Andes, in Central Asia, in the U ...

Just imagining the oldest part of North America slowly “melting” into the mantle is kind of mind-blowing. Makes you think how alive the Earth really is beneath our feet.

The finding of enriched intraplate mantle-derived magmas appearing approx. 300 million years after the onset of modern plate tectonics provides important insights into the processes, driven by ...