Now, people are only just realising that there’s a massive ocean hidden under the Earth’s crust. It turns out there’s a huge supply of water 400 miles underground stored in rock known as ...

Deep beneath the Zagros Mountains, the Neotethys plate is tearing apart, dragging Earth's crust downward. This shift may ...

New research reveals a “major mystery” deep beneath the planet’s bodies of water and crust, and now experts are rethinking what they know about Earth’s terrain. They suggest it could even ...

This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly broke apart and spread out to form the continents we ...

These anomalies are surprisingly similar to sunken chunks of Earth's crust but appear in seemingly ... such as below the western Pacific Ocean. As a result, it is unclear how they ended up there.

While these are commonly considered inventive myths, a new study reveals evidence for 'a lost world' beneath the Pacific Ocean ... Earth is made up of three layers – the crust, the mantle ...

dragging down the Earth's crust and forming a vast depression that has accumulated millions of years' worth of sediment. However, this process is not uniform and thus sections of the sinking plate ...

An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the ...

journeys into the planet’s crust to hunt for signs of life. “You get into a small truck or vehicle and go down a long, winding roadway that corkscrews down into the Earth,” she tells The Scientist. By ...

Sinking in one place leads to plates moving apart in other places. The movement of the plates and the activity inside the Earth, is called the theory of plate tectonics.

Earth’s shell is made up of several ... eventually creating a basin which could lead to the birth of a new ocean. “We can see that oceanic crust is starting to form, because it’s distinctly ...

This was when the Earth was ... rift valley will sink lower and lower eventually allowing ocean waters to flood into the basin. ‘If rifting continues, new basaltic oceanic crust may form along ...