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Beneath America, something ancient and invisible is at work. Deep under the heart of the Midwest, a long-buried slab of Earth ...
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North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, ...
Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.
Here are a dozen fun facts that you may not have known about the little book at the heart of the Passover Seder.
Geodynamic models say deep mantle flow from the long-subducted Farallon slab is likely behind the massive underground “drips” ...
When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a landscape with incredible geology. She hears a lot of the same suggestions: ...
Researchers have discovered cratonic thinning occurring beneath North America, driven by the remnants of the Farallon Plate.
Plate smashing is one of the well known customs of Greece; usually breaking plates happens during weddings and celebrations ...
Research at the universities of Caltech and ETH Zurich has uncovered hidden structures deep in Earth’s mantle beneath the ...
A new full-body reconstruction depicts a warrior wearing armor and holding weapons, all of which were found in a ...
Dubai: A 4.0-magnitude earthquake was recorded in the Arabian Gulf on Friday, approximately 55 kilometers east of the city of ...