Cratonic thinning, a phenomenon geologists think happened hundreds of millions of years ago, appears to be taking place far ...

The next layer is the mantle. Many people think of this as lava, but it's actually rock. The rock is so hot, however, that it flows under pressure, like road tar. This creates very slow-moving ...

Researchers have discovered cratonic thinning occurring beneath North America, driven by the remnants of the Farallon Plate.

Scientists now know how to drill deep enough to tap into an energy supply that would power the world for more than 20 million ...

The Earth is made up of different layers: Therefore ... Slab pull occurs where older, denser tectonic plates sink into the mantle at subduction zones. As these older sections of plates sink ...

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

Now, scientists have drilled a 1,268m-deep core that reaches down into this elusive layer. It’s a scientific goldmine. Although the mantle is a 2,900km layer of semi-solid rock, it lies at least ...

The Earth is made of different layers: the core, mantle and crust. Plate tectonic theory shows that the crust of the Earth is split into plates (pieces of the Earth’s crust). The movement of ...

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

Deeper in the mantle, compositional stratification has been proposed, either just above the core–mantle boundary as a thick undulating layer, or in isolated piles 6.

Mantle Network integrated EigenDA last week to enhance scalability and ensure better compatibility with Ethereum's impending ...