Earth’s interior can be divided into several layers: the crust, the mantle, the liquid outer core, and the solid inner core ...

Cratons are the most ancient, stable pieces of tectonic plates, but even these geological formations can change over time.A ...

As the Aral Sea has been drained by irrigation and dried up, the mass loss on the surface has caused Earth’s upper mantle to rise up, lifting the emptied sea bed an average of 7 millimetres per year ...

Researchers have discovered cratonic thinning occurring beneath North America, driven by the remnants of the Farallon Plate.

Earth’s crust discovery unveils surprising findings. The post Earth’s Crust Discovery Unveils Surprising Findings appeared ...

A deep learning-based scheme is proposed for automated and efficient processing of teleseismic phases. 1. The validation with ...

Researchers have made a new discovery that changes our understanding of Earth's early geological history, challenging beliefs ...

The University of Hawaii astronomer’s interest in habitable worlds began at a geothermal field in Iceland, where she and a ...

The study also provides a new approach to solving one of the biggest enduring scientific mysteries: when did plate tectonics ...

It’s long been thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see in ...

The mantle is the rocky envelopment that surrounds the iron core of rocky planets. The structure and dynamics of Earth's ...

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...