Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

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

In this diagram, the red lines represent ... Earth's structure that can be easily extracted. The mantle is the thickest layer of the Earth and is made of semi-solid rock that moves very slowly ...

The phase diagram shows the state of water (H2O ... For comparison: At the core-mantle boundary of the Earth at a depth of approx. 2900 kilometres, temperatures of between 3000-4000 Kelvin ...

"This study is the first to demonstrate, using a physical model, that the first-order features of Earth's lower mantle structure were established four billion years ago, very soon after the planet ...

(b) Schematic diagram of the upper mantle structure beneath the Tonga-Lau-Fiji region. A landmark study published in Geoscience—a leading Chinese journal at the forefront of earth science ...