Arsenic, a “naturally occurring, semimetallic element widely distributed in the Earth’s crust,” is toxic to ... or refrigerators,” the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...

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Scientists found new evidence that Earth’s crust is peeling underneath the Sierra Nevada in California. The process might be ...

A chunk of ancient oceanic crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is pulling parts of North America's crust down into the ...

The paper advocates drilling intact oceanic crust to determine the Moho's petrological nature and resolve crustal composition misconceptions, ...

Earth’s uppermost layer, the lithosphere, is made up of the rigid crust and the top part of the mantle, which is in a denser, but more fluid state. This layer also contains Earth’s oceanic ...

In an article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) ...

A team presents new details of an oceanic transform fault at the Gofar fault in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The work reveals unexpected brine deposits beneath the seafloor near the fault, which could ...

where two plates collide and recycle crust. However, recent findings like this necessitate a new framework for understanding oceanic transform faults. "Whenever we go out and make these kinds of ...

The belt exists along boundaries of tectonic plates, where plates of mostly oceanic crust are sinking (or subducting) beneath ...