Deep beneath California's Sierra Nevada mountains, geologists have found evidence of Earth's rigid outer layer sinking into ...

Recent research, using cutting-edge Full-Waveform Inversion (FWI) technology, has revealed that the Earth’s mantle — a massive layer stretching nearly 2,900 kilometers deep — is a chaotic ...

A new way of measuring structures deep inside Earth has highlighted numerous previously unknown blobs within our planet's ...

Scientists from Utrecht University have discovered two enormous structures deep in Earth's mantle, suggesting that these ...

The next layer is the mantle. Many people think of this as lava, but it's actually rock. The rock is so hot, however, that it flows under pressure, like road tar. This creates very slow-moving ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Plastic Layer of the Earth's Mantle ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 207 No. 1 (July 1962), p. 52 doi:10.1038 ...

The Earth is made of different layers: the core, mantle and crust. Plate tectonic theory shows that the crust of the Earth is split into plates (pieces of the Earth’s crust). The movement of ...