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

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

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 ...

A long-traveling mantle heat surge born near Greenland is still shaping North America from below. Credit: Shutterstock A deep heat mass beneath the Appalachians appears to have started near a rift ...

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 ...

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