What roils beneath Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean ...

New research reveals that early Earth concealed a deep ocean of magma, which may explain today's anomalies in the planet's ...

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

A study published in the journal Nature Geoscience has revealed a subtle yet significant phenomenon beneath the North ...

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

A plume of hot rocks that burst forth from the Earth's mantle millions of years ago helped forge a land bridge that connected Asia and Africa for the first time, allowing land animals such as the ...

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