Earth's crust, or the outermost shell of the planet ... "Ancient lithosphere can be broken apart, and this disintegration can ...

Researchers at the University of Göttingen discovered that the Neotethys oceanic plate beneath the Arabian and Eurasian continents is fracturing horizontally. This structural shift is affecting ...

New study reveals that Earth's inner core is undergoing unexpected structural changes, challenging long-held assumptions ...

Scientists have discovered portions of the Earth's crust sinking into the mantle beneath California's Sierra Nevada mountains. This phenomenon, occurring over millions of years, helps explain ...

These crustal collisions occur gradually over millions of years, yet have a profound impact in reshaping the Earth's surface.

Axial Seamount doesn’t pose a threat to humans, but observing what happens before and after its potential eruption could help scientists learn about submerged volcanoes and strengthen ...

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 ...

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 ...

Did you know that our planet’s crust has tides too? Brown University's Harriet Lau explains how they are different to the ocean. Why a famous photograph of King Richard III's skeleton was a ...

Towards Turkey, the sediment-filled depression becomes much shallower, suggesting that the slab has broken off in this ... of stress within the Earth’s crust occurs when the plates break apart ...

Our research group uses multidisciplinary tools to address fundamental geological questions related to the origin and evolution of Earth and other planetary bodies. The main focus is on the crust ...