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

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But the earthquakes she found taking place near the central region of the mountain ... Sierra Nevada through a technique known as receiver function analysis, which uses seismic waves to map ...

Schulte-Pelkum was already studying the Sierra Nevada's peculiar ... seismic waves to map Earth's internal structure. The scientists found that in the central region of the mountain range ...