Geologists have long debated whether a stony formation in Canada contains the world’s oldest rocks – new measurements make a ...

A recently published study has revealed a little-known tectonic process unfolding beneath Turkey’s Central Anatolian Plateau, ...

Earth's crust today has a surprisingly similar composition to the planet's first outer shell, or "protocrust," new research finds. This early rocky shell featured chemical signatures previously ...

Innermost layers of Earth’s interior. Earth’s interior can be divided into several layers: the crust, the mantle, the liquid outer core, and the solid inner core at the center. Many scientists have ...

Deep within the mantle — the layer between Earth’s iron core and its rocky crust — lie two vast regions beneath the Pacific Ocean and Africa where seismic waves slow down significantly. Known as ...

India News: Scientists have discovered portions of the Earth's crust sinking into the mantle beneath California's Sierra Nevada mountains. This phenomenon, occurr ...

The changing of Earth's crust is a topic that is still being studied. Plate tectonics as they are currently known likely occurred during the past billion years, according to a 2021 study .

The Earth’s interior is far more complex than what we are taught in school. Instead of just three layers- crust, mantle, and core- the Earth is made up of multiple intricate layers, each with ...

Sunrise over Ahu Tongariki Moai in Easter Island, Chile. The discovery of crystal "time capsules" on the island has challenged the idea that the Earth’s crust and mantle might move together like ...

Earth's crust may "drip" into its middle layer under growing mountain ranges. This odd process, called lithospheric dripping, has been proposed to occur under the Andes, in Central Asia, in the U ...

Earth's crust may "drip" into its middle layer under growing mountain ranges. ... North America is 'dripping' down into Earth's mantle, scientists ... A diagram illustrating two types of ...