Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Sep 12, 2024, 08:51am EDT Sep 12, 2024, 01:19pm EDT Diagram of ...

There may be hidden layers to Earth’s core dictated by chemical composition. In A Nutshell Lab experiments suggest Earth’s ...

While most of us take the ground beneath our feet for granted, written within its complex layers, like the pages of a book, is Earth's history. Our history. Research shows there are little-known ...

Recent scientific discoveries have challenged our understanding of the geology beneath the Himalayas, suggesting that a hidden structure within the Earth may be responsible for the enduring stature of ...

Scientists at the Australian National University have made a highly unusual discovery thousands of miles beneath the Earth’s surface: a doughnut-shaped structure within our planet’s liquid core. The ...

An international research team may have found an explanation for seismic anomalies, the noticeable deviations in the behavior of earthquake waves, in Earth's inner core. A team led by scientists from ...

A schematic diagram for the three constituent parts of Earth system science and their functional elements A schematic diagram for the behavior of physical, chemical and biological interactions within ...

In recent research published by myself and my colleague Tony Yeates in the journal Tectonophysics, we investigate what we believe – based on many years of experience in asteroid impact research – is ...

Researchers have detected a large, previously unknown structure—consisting of unusually dense, hot rock—deep inside the Earth below the Pacific Ocean. The structure, known as an ultralow-velocity zone ...

The inside of giant planets can reach pressures more than one million times the Earth's atmosphere. As a result of that intense pressure, materials can adopt unexpected structures and properties.

The 40-mile wide crater is more than 2.2 billion years old. New geologic data reveals that a crater in Western Australia is likely the oldest impact structure on Earth, according to a paper published ...