The discovery of a new lifeform within Earth’s crust has sent ripples through the scientific community, challenging our ...

A plume of molten rock rising from the depths of the Earth in heartbeat-like pulses is slowly tearing Africa apart—and will ...

Rocks older than 4.03 billion years could shed light on Earth's earliest geological history, but they're incredibly rare.

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world's most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...

Geology; Earth's crust may be building mountains by dripping into the mantle . News. By Stephanie Pappas published 9 October 2024 An odd phenomenon called lithospheric dripping might occur ...

According to the team, at intervals within those billion or so years, up to a third of Earth’s crust was sawn off by Snowball Earth’s roaming glaciers and their erosive capabilities.

Scientists believed that Venus' crust was continuously thickening, in the absence of mechanisms like plate tectonics. However, a publication in Nature Communications proposes a new model based on ...

Sunrise over Ahu Tongariki Moai in Easter Island, Chile. The discovery of crystal "time capsules" on the island has challenged the idea that the Earth’s crust and mantle might move together like ...

"It resets the playing field for how the geology, crust and atmosphere on Venus work together." Venus, often written off as a geologically dead world, is far more active beneath its blistering ...

Red Rock Rising. Episode 105 | 26m 46s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Doug winds his way through the sculpted red rock formations of Utah and Arizona. In red rock country the Earth’s crust has ...

Tiny grains of minerals smaller than the width of human hair hold clues to the construction of our planet Earth and its path through the Milky Way.

A crust thicker than the surrounding oceanic crust. Well-defined limits around a large enough area. The first three requirements are found in just about every geology textbook.