A recent study reveals that slow ocean expansion 15-6 million years ago caused sea levels to change and drop by up to 30 ...

North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, ...

As seas rise along South Africa’s coastlines, a natural counterforce is at play, drought. New research reveals that parts of ...

Water from both volcanic rocks and deep mantle melted Earth's crust 1.6 billion years ago. This long-lasting melting formed ...

This pull is thinning the base of the continent in a process called cratonic thinning. (Representational) A chunk of ancient oceanic crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is pulling parts of North ...

New research reveals that early Earth harboured a deep ocean of magma, which might explain current anomalies in the planet's ...

journeys into the planet’s crust to hunt for signs of life. “You get into a small truck or vehicle and go down a long, winding roadway that corkscrews down into the Earth,” she tells The Scientist. By ...

A study published in Nature reveals that Earth's first crust, formed about 4.5 ... or attracted to metal, sinking through the global magma ocean into Earth's core. "I realized there might be ...

South Africa is slowly lifting out of the water—by up to 2 millimeters per year depending on the region. It had been assumed ...

The study, published in March in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, says the dramatic ice melt would redistribute the ...

The team's calculations showed the protocrust -- Earth's earliest crust formed during ... or attracted to metal, sinking through the global magma ocean into the Earth's core.

A study published in the journal Nature Geoscience has revealed a subtle yet significant phenomenon beneath the North American continent; its ancient bedrock is slowly dripping into the Earth’s mantle ...