Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stanford researchers mapped rare mantle earthquakes worldwide, revealing clusters near the Himalayas and the Bering Strait.

Now, a new paper suggests that the Farallon plate is still making its presence felt far from the coasts, powering one of ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The Earth's mantle might not always move along in lockstep with the overlying tectonic crust—as set out in science ...

A sideways flow of hot mantle rock, not a deep plume rising from near Earth’s core, may be feeding one of the planet’s most ...

Iceland’s most recent volcanic episode on the Reykjanes peninsula, set to last centuries, began with vast magma pooling just beneath the surface Scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of ...

Heat flow in the Sea of Japan / Masashi Yasui [and others] -- Temperature profiles for the continental and oceanic crust / E.A. Lubimova -- Terrestrial heat flow in India / R.K. Verma and Hari Narain ...

In 2005, I was navigating winding roads through the Drakensberg Mountains, in Lesotho, Southern Africa. Towering cliff-like features known as escarpments interrupt the landscape, rising up by a ...

Stanford University researchers have pulled back a curtain on a hidden part of Earth that rarely makes headlines. Their new work maps a strange kind of earthquake that starts deep below the crust, ...