Remnants of a liquid layer of magma near Earth's core, formed in the first few hundred million years of the planet's history, ...

The paper advocates drilling intact oceanic crust to determine the Moho's petrological nature and resolve crustal composition misconceptions, ...

Additionally, the discovery of two “giant blobs” deep inside the Earth has sparked debates among experts about how and why ...

Evidence of delamination includes the formation of ... with the detached oceanic slab, continental subduction and dripping, a process whereby 'blobs' of continental crust drip from its base.

A team presents new details of an oceanic transform fault at the Gofar fault in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The work reveals unexpected brine deposits beneath the seafloor near the fault, which could ...

Iran's folded rocks are a colorful formation that is part of the Greater Caucasus mountains, which formed when the Eurasian ...

The researchers found that the drips result from the downward dragging force of a chunk of oceanic crust that broke off from an ancient tectonic plate called the Farallon plate. The Farallon plate ...

Past work by members of the Petrology Group indicates that carbonate reduces the solidus of the subducted oceanic crust, promoting the formation of carbonatitic melts in the transition zone (Andrew R ...

Continental and oceanic plates all fit together to form the outer crust of the planet. Eight major plates are named on the diagram below. Heat from the core makes magma in the mantle rise towards ...

In an article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) presents a never-before-seen image of an oceanic transform fault from ...