A section of the upper mantle and crust under the Sierra Nevada mountains is peeling away, in a process that may mimic how ...

Researchers at the University of Göttingen discovered that the Neotethys oceanic plate beneath the Arabian and Eurasian ...

A new study in Nature Geoscience reveals insights about the Earth’s core. While we often learn about the inner and outer ...

Deep beneath the Zagros Mountains, the Neotethys plate is tearing apart, dragging Earth's crust downward. This shift may ...

Beryllium-10 is a radioactive isotope that is continuously produced by cosmic rays interacting with Earth's atmosphere. When ...

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

It’s here that Barbara Sherwood Lollar, a hydrogeologist at the University of Toronto, journeys into the planet’s crust to hunt for signs of life. “You get into a small truck or vehicle and go down a ...

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Scientists discovered a hidden process where Earth's crust peels away and sinks, reshaping continents over millions of years, revealing Earth's slow evolution.