The knowledge of how Earth recycled its crust revealed that fragments of continents slowly peeled away and swept deep beneath ...

An immense pocket of hot rock deep beneath the Appalachians may be a wandering relic of the breakup between Greenland and ...

Scientists have uncovered a hidden geological process where fragments of continents are slowly stripped from below and swept deep into the oceanic mantle, sparking volcanic activity in unexpected ...

Once inside the oceanic mantle, bits of continents become part of the magma factory that powers ocean volcanoes.

1. Introduction -- 2. The great cooling -- 3. Ice age cycles -- 4. Trace gases warm the planet -- 5. Moving continents and dating rocks -- 6. Mapping past climates -- 7. Into the icehouse -- 8. The ...