Africa’s Turkana Rift Zone, a hotbed of hominin fossils, is caught in the act of “necking," a critical transition toward ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Beneath the American Midwest, on the continent of North America, the underside of Earth's crust is dripping into the planetary ...

A team of geochemists has found new evidence that Earth has been consistently churning out crust since its formation 4.5 billion years ago and that some crust is made of ancient, resurfaced chunks.

Scientists found mantle-linked helium signatures in Zambia's Kafue Rift hot springs. The findings suggest the Southwest ...

A region known as the Kafue Rift could be the site of the world’s newest plate boundary, as the once stable African tectonic ...

June 26 (UPI) --New research suggests roughly 5 to 6 percent of the Earth's mantle is made up of recycled crust. The discovery, detailed Friday in the journal Science Advances, suggests Earth has been ...

Scientists have found that the crust beneath East Africa’s Turkana Rift is thinning to a critical point, signaling that the continent is slowly breaking apart. (Artist’s concept.) Credit: SciTechDaily ...

An artist's conception of the early Earth, showing a surface bombarded by large impacts that result in the extrusion of magma onto the surface. At the same time, distal portions of the planet's ...

Rocks from the Rio Grande continental rift have provided a rare snapshot of active geology deep inside Earth's crust, revealing new evidence for how continents remain stable over billions of years, ...

The crust has survived massive amounts of upheaval and change. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A 4-billion-year-old piece of ...

The Earth with the upper mantle exposed. Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered a previously unknown layer of partly molten rock approximately 100 miles beneath the Earth's ...