The Earth’s interior is far more complex than what we are taught in school. Instead of just three layers- crust, mantle, and ...
Extinct volcanoes that lurk around Rapa Nui, aka Easter Island, may challenge some parts of the standard explanation about ...
Cratons are believed to be the longest-lived regions of the Earth, but a new study shows how dynamic processes can cause ...
Geologists studying Easter Island recently opened up another mystery centered around the famous region. A team from ...
On present-day Earth, plate subduction continuously modifies the chemical composition of the convecting mantle, and various ...
A mysterious find on Easter Island, investigated by a team of geologists, suggests that the Earth's mantle seems to behave differently than once thought.
A vast, ancient slab of seafloor plunged beneath the Pacific Ocean and has hovered in Earth’s mantle for more than 120 ...
Meteorite impacts helped create Earth’s oceans and continents. They sparked life’s evolution through changes in the ...
An unexpected find in tiny crystals hints that the Earth's mantle may not quite behave as has been believed for nearly a ...
Researchers from the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS), along with collaborators from ...
Researchers have discovered enormous tube worms and other creatures thriving in cavities beneath the seafloor on the East ...