Scientists have mapped how Earth’s deepest mantle is being deformed—and the results point to long-lost tectonic plates buried ...

For the first time, an international team of scientists has built a global map of deformations in the lower mantle of the ...

Sunken slabs from long-lost tectonic plates are still churning around in Earth's interior, far below your feet. In a new study, geologists have attempted to map the base of the mantle, close to where ...

A new study has found that most rare earth deposits – sources of metals essential for electronics and clean energy ...

The rocks didn’t look like much from the outside. Scattered across a remote stretch of western Australia called North Pole Dome, they were ancient, weathered, and largely ignored for the better part ...

The Earth with the upper mantle revealed. Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered a previously unknown layer of partly molten rock in a key region just below the tectonic ...

A new study carried out on the floor of Pacific Ocean provides the most detailed view yet of how the earth’s mantle flows beneath the ocean’s tectonic plates. The findings, published in the journal ...

Scientists have discovered a huge tectonic boundary under Africa, running from Mozambique to Tanzania.

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Harvard study finds direct evidence that Earth’s plates were moving 3.5 billion years ago. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) The rocks didn’t ...