Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.

The continent called Greater Adria resurfaces in the scientific community, bringing with it a new way of understanding the Earth's movements. It was nearly 240 million years ago: Greater Adria had ...

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

Where does life lurk under the ice of Antarctica? The answers keep surprising us. In January, for example, researchers found ...