In recent years, science has unveiled some astonishing secrets—from what lurks inside black holes to the discovery of a vast ...

Water from both volcanic rocks and deep mantle melted Earth's crust 1.6 billion years ago. This long-lasting melting formed ...

Seismic imaging reveals a funnel-shaped region beneath the Midwest, drawing rock ... Earth's mantle. This phenomenon is gradually stripping away material from the bottom of the continent's crust.

Scientists have discovered evidence that the Earth's crust is peeling away beneath California's Sierra Nevada mountain range. After analyzing earthquake data and imaging deep rock formations ...

Earth's crust today has a surprisingly similar composition ... As the Earth solidified from molten rock, the iron-rich portions of that magma sank and concentrated, becoming today's metallic ...

An underground ocean refers to vast amounts of water stored inside Earth’s mantle rock ... water through its crust and core more than we ever realized. Such a deep water cycle could help ...

Scientists found new evidence that Earth’s crust is peeling underneath the Sierra Nevada in California. The process might be how the continents formed, they say.

Schulte-Pelkum was already studying the Sierra Nevada’s peculiar rock ... Earth’s internal structure. The scientists found that in the central region of the mountain range, Earth’s crust ...

The record-breaking mission offers an unprecedented opportunity to study the geology of our planet’s largest layer.

The research, which documents a so-called "rapid anthropoclastic rock cycle," has been reported in the journal Geology. This rock cycle seems to mimic the natural processes of rock formation, but ...

New Curtin-led research has revealed that water played a far bigger role than previously thought in shaping Earth's first ... crust formation locked in billion-year-old rock," Professor Li said.

But there's something even stranger: the entire solid shell of Earth—the mantle and crust—can slide over ... 1,000 samples from two overlapping rock sections to ensure reproducibility.