Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

Earth's crust, or the outermost shell of the planet ... "Ancient lithosphere can be broken apart, and this disintegration can be caused by this special form of subduction occurring near oceanic ...

Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

Some areas of continental crust have maintained long-term stability from the beginning of Earth's history ... "Ancient lithosphere can be broken apart, and this disintegration can be caused ...

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

From pole to equator, the sphere is covered in a thick crust of ice. In orbit around the white planet is a single cratered moon. You are gazing on Earth in the Cryogenian period, 700 million years ...

In 2014, scientists announced that a tiny zircon crystal from Australia, 4.4 billion years old, was confirmed to be the oldest discovered fragment of Earth's crust. In 2020, a New York City jury ...

Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: a volcano scientist who does her work in the middle of the Pacific Ocean—at the ...

The Earth's interior is composed of four layers ... Currents within the mantle have broken the crust into blocks, called plates, which slowly move around, colliding to build mountains or rifting ...

Researchers have discovered a 3.5-billion-year-old meteorite impact crater in Western Australia, providing new insights into ...

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 ...