An odd phenomenon called lithospheric dripping might occur wherever mountains form. Earth's crust may "drip" into its middle ...

A vast, ancient slab of seafloor plunged beneath the Pacific Ocean and has hovered in Earth’s mantle for more than 120 ...

Extinct volcanoes that lurk around Rapa Nui, aka Easter Island, may challenge some parts of the standard explanation about ...

An unexpected find in tiny crystals hints that the Earth's mantle may not quite behave as has been believed for nearly a ...

Lava that erupts from hotspots around the world seems to come from a similar ancestral magma, new research finds.

Earth's continental configurations have changed dramatically over its billions of years' history, transforming not only their ...

Tiny minerals are revolutionizing our understanding of textbooks. Easter Island consists of several extinct volcanoes. The ...

Researchers from the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS), along with collaborators from ...

Cratons are believed to be the longest-lived regions of the Earth, but a new study shows how dynamic processes can cause ...

On present-day Earth, plate subduction continuously modifies the chemical composition of the convecting mantle, and various ...