The Earth’s interior is far more complex than what we are taught in school. Instead of just three layers- crust, mantle, and ...

Seismic data like the lines pictured on this 3D map help scientists understand the structure of the earth's core. This ...

Deep under the crust and mantle of our Earth lies its core. Earth's core was formed during the Iron Catastrophe ...

There is much we still don’t know about the inside of our planet – but scientists recently discovered water is slowly leaking down there from the surface. It’s not a simple journey. The liquid is ...

Recent research has identified that significant changes in the Earth's mantle composition began about 300 million years ago, ...

By using seismic waves generated by earthquakes, scientists can create three-dimensional images of the Earth's different layers, including the crust, mantle, and core. The data collected using this ...

But landforms can also be created when the lithosphere, which consists of the crust and the relatively brittle upper layer of the mantle, gets especially thick. Mountains create a lot of pressure ...

Earth's crust, or the outermost shell of the planet, has drastically changed throughout geologic history, mostly due to the ...

There are 35 large Archean cratons around the world that form the geologic core of tectonic plates ... investigates exactly ...

Geologists studying Easter Island recently opened up another mystery centered around the famous region. A team from ...

Some areas of continental crust have maintained long-term stability from the beginning of Earth's history, with little destruction by tectonic events or mantle convection, known as cratons.

When plumes of magma well up through Earth's lithosphere, they create volcanoes, islands, seamounts, and other features on ...