It’s not much of a stretch to say that Earth’s inner structure, especially the innermost spherical core, has stupefied ...
Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...
New research is reshaping how scientists understand the earliest days of Earth’s formation—suggesting that the deep interior ...
The next layer, the mantle, stretches about 1,800 miles (2,900km) below Earth's surface. The mantle contains both magma, or molten rock, and slowly-moving solid rock. Earth's innermost layer is ...
Scientists now know how to drill deep enough to tap into an energy supply that would power the world for more than 20 million ...
The Earth is made of different layers: the core, mantle and crust. Plate tectonic theory shows that the crust of the Earth is split into plates (pieces of the Earth’s crust). The movement of ...
In a surprising new discovery, scientists have found that the underside of the North American continent is slowly “dripping” ...
Scientists have long been puzzled by volcanoes that erupt far from the edges of tectonic plates—known as intraplate volcanoes ...
Like straight out of Julio Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth, scientists from Northwestern University and the ...