Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Studying the molten rock simmering about 12 miles below the Earth ...
A news study shows that various regions of North America are kept afloat by heat within Earth's rocky crust, and describes how much of the continent would sink beneath sea level if not for heat that ...
All around the world, from the Red Sea to the deep ocean ridges of the Atlantic, lurk more than a dozen geological misfits.
A University of Utah study shows how various regions of North America are kept afloat by heat within Earth’s rocky crust, and how much of the continent would sink beneath sea level if not for heat ...
It turns out that continental breakups are just as messy as human ones, with the events leaving fragments scattered far from home ...
The Atlantic island of Bermuda has long looked like a geological magic trick, a lonely volcanic peak apparently hovering in the middle of the ocean with no obvious engine beneath it. Now a new picture ...
No one really knows how the High Plains got so high. About 70 million years ago, eastern Colorado, southeastern Wyoming, western Kansas and western Nebraska were near sea level. Since then, the region ...
How do you make half the mass of two continents disappear? To answer that question, you first need to discover that it’s missing. That’s what a trio of University of Chicago geoscientists and their ...