Scientists used satellite data to confirm that Earth's crust is "dripping" into the mantle beneath Turkey's Central Anatolian ...

The Sierra Nevada range in California is seen from the north. Crustal rocks deep underneath are in the process of foundering, or sinking into the mantle. Credit: Dicklyon/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4 ...

Far beneath central Turkey, a dense slab of rock is peeling away from the bottom of the continent and sinking into the mantle ...

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About sixty million years ago, the Icelandic mantle plume—a fountain of hot rock that rises from Earth’s core-mantle boundary—unleashed volcanic activity across a vast area of the North Atlantic, ...