A study published in the journal Nature Geoscience has revealed a subtle yet significant phenomenon beneath the North ...

An ocean may in time develop from a rift in the Afar Triangle, in the Horn of Africa, which will be very close to America predict scientists (around ... pulling apart the crust of the Earth. This ...

When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a landscape with incredible geology. She hears a lot of the same suggestions: ...

With the electric vehicle market expected to drive demand for 200,000 tons of rare earth elements in North America through 2030 ... to ensure they can keep up with demand without needing to ...

The North American continent is "dripping" rock into the lower layers of the Earth, new research says, and in the process ...

A map showing seismic speed in Earth’s crust at 125 miles (201 km) depth across the continental U.S. and portions of Central ...

A new study details how the North American plate is “dripping ... But as a result of being the most ancient pieces of Earth’s lithosphere (containing the crust and uppermost mantle ...