What roils beneath Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal activity and evolution. In fact, ...

There may be chunks of an ancient planet trapped in Earth’s mantle. The prevailing theory of the moon’s formation is called the giant impact hypothesis, in which a Mars-sized object called ...

Scientists have found potential remnants of Earth’s ancient crust deep within the mantle using new seismic mapping techniques. These anomalies, discovered in unexpected locations, suggest new ...

Geologists Uncover Remnants of Earth’s Mantle That Have Lasted Over 2.5 Billion Years New research suggests that a discrepancy in rocks shows they endured extreme heat, and reveals more about an ...

Scientists have traced a 60-million-year volcanic trail from Iceland to Ireland to a deep mantle plume that shaped the North ...

Ancient rocks harboured microbial life deep below the seafloor in Earth's mantle, scientists have found, reinforcing that life springs up anywhere there is water, even in seemingly hostile ...

An ancient slab of Earth's crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is sucking huge swatches of present-day's North American crust down into the mantle, researchers say. The slab's pull has created ...

He and his colleagues report that the breakup of ancient supercontinents like Pangaea and Rodinia caused deep disruptions in the flow of the mantle beneath Earth’s crust, setting off the blasts.

A study published in the journal Nature Geoscience has revealed a subtle yet significant phenomenon beneath the North American continent; its ancient bedrock is slowly dripping into the Earth’s ...

New research reveals Earth's ancient ‘breath’: Study reveals connection between atmospheric changes and mantle chemistry Peer-Reviewed Publication ...