Plans that would have finished sinkhole repairs and reopened two westbound lanes of I-80 next week have been pushed back ...

This hidden geological layer, located between 254 and 410 miles (410 and 660 kilometers) beneath the Earth’s surface, covers ...

As the Farallon slab sinks deeper into the mantle, its influence on the overlying crust will likely diminish, and the “dripping” may eventually stop. Nevertheless, the discovery has opened the ...

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics influence the trajectory and speed of the plates as they plunge deep into ...

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust above it to "drip" and suck down rocks from across the continent.

Slab pull occurs where older, denser tectonic plates sink into the mantle at subduction zones. As these older sections of plates sink, newer and less dense sections of plate are pulled along behind.