Extinct volcanoes that lurk around Rapa Nui, aka Easter Island, may challenge some parts of the standard explanation about ...

Planet Earth's sixth ocean has been spotted slowly emerging in what is a geological phenomenon. While experts have been ...

The Earth’s interior is far more complex than what we are taught in school. Instead of just three layers- crust, mantle, and ...

On present-day Earth, plate subduction continuously modifies the chemical composition of the convecting mantle, and various mantle sources linked to these processes have been widely studied.

Cratons are believed to be the longest-lived regions of the Earth, but a new study shows how dynamic processes can cause ...

In the vast, serene deserts of Ethiopia, something remarkable has been happening since 2005—a 35-mile-long crack, known as ...

It’s often taught that Earth’s rocky tectonic plates sit on top of a syrup-like bed of viscous rock, known as the mantle, that moves along with those plates like a conveyor belt. This is ...

Geologists studying Easter Island recently opened up another mystery centered around the famous region. A team from ...

Tiny minerals are revolutionizing our understanding of textbooks. Easter Island consists of several extinct volcanoes. The ...

On present-day Earth, plate subduction continuously modifies the chemical composition of the convecting mantle, and various mantle sources linked to these processes have been widely studied.

The process of the great continent of Africa losing its eastern shoulder will be slow and gradual rather than a sudden, ...