This "virtual Earth" is the first computer model that "views" the crust and mantle as an interconnected, dynamic system, the researchers reported Oct. 30 in the journal Science Advances.

Tungsten (W), a hard, heat-resistant, and corrosion-resistant metal, is indispensable to modern high-tech industries—from ...

In 1981, scientists discovered one of the thinnest portions of the Earth’s crust — a 1-mile (1.6 kilometers) thick, earthquake-prone spot under the Atlantic Ocean where the American and African ...

Layers based on chemical composition are the core, mantle and crust. According to mechanical properties, Earth's layers are the lithosphere, asthenosphere, lower mantle (also known as mesospheric ...

From early Earth history, the continental crust (the Earth's thick solid outer skin that we live on) has accumulated mass from the underlying hot mantle. Most of the newly formed crust, however ...

Geoscientists have made an unprecedented achievement on their 60-year quest to know more about Earth's mysterious depths. Pieces of Earth’s rocky mantle were collected by a drilling vessel ...

A ‘ghost plume’ identified deep in the mantle beneath Oman suggests there may be more heat flowing out of Earth’s core than previously thought ...

The African blob is still far from Earth's crust — the mantle is 1,800 miles (2,900 km) thick in total — but this deep structure's instability may have implications for the planet's surface.

Earth's crust may "drip" into its middle layer under growing mountain ranges. This odd process, called lithospheric dripping, has been proposed to occur under the Andes, in Central Asia, in the U ...

Voyage from Earth's crust to its mantle and back again Date: January 19, 2015 Source: ETH Zürich Summary: Uranium isotopes leave a distinct 'fingerprint' in the sources of volcanic rocks, making ...