Deep beneath California's Sierra Nevada mountains, geologists have found evidence of Earth's rigid outer layer sinking into the mantle, like a sugar cube slowly descending and dissolving into a pool ...
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 ...
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