Sometimes, you know, often, when you go to a museum, you see a cross section of the Earth’s mantle, which is basically everything between the iron, nickel core and the crust. It's most of the Earth by ...

McArie Island, located between New Zealand and Antarctica, is a geological treasure that offers a glimpse into Earth’s deep past. Unlike most islands, McArie is composed entirely of oceanic crust and ...

Geologists have long debated whether a stony formation in Canada contains the world’s oldest rocks – new measurements make a ...

The changing of Earth's crust is a topic that is still being studied. Plate tectonics as they are currently known likely occurred during the past billion years, according to a 2021 study .

A cutaway section shows the Earth's interior. The mantle and crust have long been thought to move together, much like a conveyor belt, but new evidence suggests the mantle's behavior may be far ...

“Earth’s mantle convects — like boiling water in a pan — and this convection mixes different components in the mantle that were formed from the creation of continental crust,” Guo said. For the study, ...

Artist impression of two types of lithospheric drip. One type produces thickening and uplift of Earth’s crust, while the other results in the formation of a basin at the surface without ...