Scientists found new evidence that Earth’s crust is peeling underneath the Sierra Nevada in California. The process might be ...

Beneath the surface of the United States, the Earth's crust is gradually subsiding, creating a novel geological phenomenon.

Just when things couldn't get any crazier in the US, scientists have discovered that the underside of the Earth's crust is dripping molten lava inside the planet. The hot lava is thought to be ...

A diagram showing how Earth's crust and upper mantle (together known as the lithosphere) could be dripping into the mantle ...

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

This includes the movements of the Earth’s tectonic plates that result in the creation, destruction and rearrangement of the Earth’s crust and lithosphere. Water-flux melting by mantle fluids ...

The processes led to the lithosphere, which consists of the Earth's crust and upper mantle, thinning and extending seaward. The NCC was specifically studied, but "the North American craton ...

The plates make up Earth's outer shell, called the lithosphere. (This includes the crust and uppermost part of the mantle.) Churning currents in the molten rocks below propel them along like a ...

Lithospheric dripping occurs when the underside of Earth's rocky crust is heated to a certain temperature. As the rock melts, ...