Iran's folded rocks are a colorful formation that is part of the Greater Caucasus mountains, which formed when the Eurasian tectonic plate collided with the Arabian plate millions of years ago.

Seismologist Deborah Kilb was wading through California earthquake records from the past four decades when she noticed something odd — a series of deep earthquakes that had occurred ...

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

A 400-mile funnel under the U.S. Midwest is dragging Earth's crust into the mantle—revealing ancient tectonic forces still ...

Experts from Japan predict the sun will destroy all life on Earth no later than the year 1,000,002,021 as supercomputers set ...

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

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