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

Under the southern section of the mountain range, the lithosphere —the upper part of Earth's mantle and part of the crust — has already peeled away and sunk into the deeper mantle, according ...

Recent research has uncovered evidence suggesting that Earth’s crust may be peeling away ... Similar processes may be occurring under other mountain ranges and continents around the world.

As the process continued, the descending oceanic plate functions like an anchor, dragging down the Earth's crust and forming a vast depression that has accumulated millions of years' worth of ...

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

Like a moth in a cocoon, the metamorphosis of Earth's crust from molten goop to solid land is hidden from view ... One means by which this could happen involves the dense basalt melting while wet and ...

Renas Koshnaw, lead author of the study in Solid Earth (2024), noted that sediment ... As stress redistributes within the crust, regions like northwest Iran, Iraq, and southeast Turkey may ...

This discovery was made possible through a groundbreaking technique that maps seismic waves traveling through the Earth's ...

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...

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

Ariel’s medial grooves could provide important clues about the moon’s internal structure, particularly regarding the presence ...