Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

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

Alternatively, as shown in the diagram, convection currents under the Earth’s crust transfer heat, which rises through the surface and cools back down in a circular motion. The convection ...

Stamps teamed up with colleague Corné Kreemer, a research professor at the University of Nevada, and the result of their work, "Open Access GNSS Data for Studies of the Lithosphere," has been ...

In this diagram, the red lines represent the edges of the tectonic plates that make up the Earth's crust. For example, iron is mined from the Earth's crust in quarries. It is a finite resource ...

"The Earth's curvature explains this phenomenon, as described in the diagram accompanying the photograph. The Earth's curvature is also visible laterally in the photograph, although the effect is ...