Scientists have discovered that a portion of the North American craton is slowly dripping into Earth's mantle, challenging ...

A massive volcanic ridge beneath the Indian Ocean has just delivered a major surprise to geologists. According to a new study published in Nature Communications, the Kerguelen hotspot—the volcanic ...

Beneath the crust of North America, scientists have found that the deep roots of the continent are slowly dripping away in ...

Mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORBs), located far from subduction zones, are typically thought to be unaffected by subduction ...

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

The deep roots of Earth's oldest continents have long been thought to be unshakable. But a new seismic discovery suggests that even these stable landmasses can change. Beneath the center of North ...

Explore how North America is changing as its deep cratonic root thins and pieces are dripping into the Earth's mantle.

Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have found that parts of the North American continent are slowly “dripping” ...

Traditional seismic tomography methods, such as the travel time tomography, primarily rely on ray theory. While these methods can reveal the heterogeneous structure of the Earth’s interior ...

Wang, W., Chen, P., Dueker, K., Lee, E.-., Mu, D. & Keifer, I., (2020), Seismic evidence of glacial deposits inhibiting weathering of local bedrock at a snow ...

The integration of azimuthally varying surface-wave data with multi-scale tomography represents ... potential of high-resolution seismic imaging in earth sciences. The findings highlight the ...