The Earth has a layered structure made up of the core, the mantle and the crust. Different elements are present in different parts of the Earth’s structure. The crust is made from enormous ...

Plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth’s crust, may have begun much earlier than previously thought—and may be a big ...

Earth's mantle is split by the Pacific Ring of Fire, an ancient schism that reflects the creation and destruction of the supercontinent Pangaea, a new study finds. One of these sections contains ...

The team hopes its new circulation models will provide fresh insights into how the mantle has influenced the Earth's surface over hundreds ... Great strides have been made in developing this ...

Seafloor is made of a denser rock called basalt, which presses deeper into the mantle, producing basins that can fill with water. Except in the crust, the interior of the Earth cannot be studied ...

A team of European researchers discovered a new high-pressure mineral in a lunar meteorite which is helping to explain what happens to materials within the extreme pressures of the Earth’s mantle. The ...