Researchers at the University of Göttingen discovered that the Neotethys oceanic plate beneath the Arabian and Eurasian ...

Under the southern section of the mountain range, the lithosphere —the upper part of Earth's mantle and part of the crust — has already peeled away and sunk into the deeper mantle, according ...

Deep beneath the Zagros Mountains, an ancient oceanic plate is tearing apart, dragging the Earth’s crust with it. What was ...

In certain regions, one plate is forced beneath another, creating intense pressure and geological activity. These crustal collisions occur gradually over millions of years, yet have a profound impact ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But do other planets in the solar system have them too?

Emerging consensus on the structure and dynamics of Greenland’s lithosphere may help improve forecasts of climate and sea level change and develop solutions for sustainable resource use.

Scientists have discovered that portions of the Earth's crust are peeling away and sinking into the mantle. The geological churning is happening beneath California's Sierra Nevada mountains. The ...

These anomalies are surprisingly similar to sunken chunks of Earth's crust but appear in seemingly impossible places. Potential patches of Earth's ancient crust, sometimes called "sunken worlds ...

It’s here that Barbara Sherwood Lollar, a hydrogeologist at the University of Toronto, journeys into the planet’s crust to hunt for signs of life. “You get into a small truck or vehicle and go down a ...

Renas Koshnaw, lead author of the study in Solid Earth (2024), noted that sediment ... As stress redistributes within the crust, regions like northwest Iran, Iraq, and southeast Turkey may ...