The Earth with the upper mantle exposed. Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered a previously unknown layer of partly molten rock approximately 100 miles beneath the Earth's ...
Water gushes through dark, craggy rocks on the shore. A massive water reservoir is hidden deep beneath the ocean floor off the coast of New Zealand — and it may explain why the region experiences slow ...
The phenomenon has been happening for millions of years quietly beneath our feet and could shed new light on how the ...
Researchers have confirmed that a rare geological process called lithospheric dripping is pulling pieces of the Earth’s lower crust deep into the mantle under the Konya Basin. This discovery, driven ...
The project will provide data on the Earth's internal structure. Chinese President Xi Jinping named deep Earth sciences one of four strategic frontiers to explore. Scientists in China have begun ...
(Left) Schematic illustration of a kink structure. (Center) Kink bands observed in mudstone near Fort Island, Rhode Island. (Right) Large-scale kink structure in Southern California, USA. Your first ...
A new study from a University of Chicago scientist suggests there may be a layer of surprisingly fluid rock ringing the Earth, at the very bottom of the upper mantle. The finding was made by measuring ...
The Earth has five oceans, right? There’s the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Southern Oceans. Even the Southern Ocean is relatively new so you may have learned that Earth only has four. But ...
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - China is drilling a well in the expanse of the Taklamakan Desert to a depth of 10,000 meters for research on the Earth's crust. The project, named Shendi Take 1, is being carried ...