A group of researchers from ETH Zurich and the California Institute of Technology have conducted a study that has provided impressive details about the Earth's mantle For a long time, the Earth's ...

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

Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.

It creates the Earth's magnetic field and is about 1,400 miles (2,300 kilometers) thick. The next layer is the mantle. Many people think of this as lava, but it's actually rock. The rock is so hot ...

Here are some fun facts about Earth as we celebrate this planet we ... the outer core, the mantle and the crust. The temperature of Earth’s inner core is extremely hot, reaching 9,800 degrees ...

The plates make up Earth's outer shell, called the lithosphere. (This includes the crust and uppermost part of the mantle.) Churning currents in the molten rocks below propel them along like a ...

Researchers found that a large funnel-shaped zone beneath the Midwest is pulling rocks from across North America toward it horizontally before they sink into the Earth’s mantle. This process is ...

An ancient slab of Earth's crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is sucking huge swatches of present-day's North American crust down into the mantle, researchers say. The slab's pull has created ...