As the Aral Sea has been drained by irrigation and dried up, the mass loss on the surface has caused Earth’s upper mantle to ...

Just when things couldn't get any crazier in the US, scientists have discovered that the underside of the Earth's crust is ...

Surrounding it there would gradually form a thick zone of silicate rocks ... differentiation then combined in developing the earth's crust. We now find in the latter all those rocks which hold ...

Crust The crust is the outer layer of the Earth on which we live. It is the thinnest layer and is between 5 and 90 km thick. Earth is divided into four layers: the inner core, the outer core ...

Venus may be far more geologically alive than anyone expected. New research suggests its outer crust could be churning with ...

Venus—a hot planet pocked with tens of thousands of volcanoes—may be even more geologically active near its surface than ...

It’s long been thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see in ...

A map showing seismic speed in Earth’s crust at 125 miles depth across the continental U.S. and portions of Central America and Canada. The North American craton (outlined in black dashes) has a ...

On a quiet Friday, a big earthquake hit Myanmar, killing more than 1,600 people and causing a lot of damage. Buildings fell, ...

As an ice sheet thousands of feet thick began its final crawling retreat from North America to the Arctic toward the end of the last glacial period some 10,000 years ago, it left behind the planet’s ...

Earth's first crust, formed around 4.5 billion years ago, likely had chemical features similar to today's continental crust, suggesting that the distinctive chemical signature of continents was ...

Lithospheric dripping occurs when the underside of Earth's rocky crust is heated to a certain temperature. As the rock melts, ...