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Using the newfound data, the researchers imaged the Sierra Nevada through a technique known as receiver function analysis, which uses seismic waves to map Earth's internal structure. The scientists ...

Scientists have discovered evidence that the Earth's crust is peeling away beneath California's Sierra Nevada mountain range. After analyzing earthquake data and imaging deep rock formations ...

But the earthquakes she found taking place near the central region of the mountain range were up ... Schulte-Pelkum was already studying the Sierra Nevada’s peculiar rock footprint, which ...

Schulte-Pelkum was already studying the Sierra Nevada's peculiar rock footprint ... The scientists found that in the central region of the mountain range, Earth's crust is currently peeling ...