Scientists have discovered that a portion of the North American craton is slowly dripping into Earth's mantle, challenging ...

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Earth's crust today has a surprisingly similar composition to the planet's first outer shell, or "protocrust," new research ...

thick and appears to be divided into two layers: the upper mantle and the lower mantle. The boundary between the two lies about 465 miles (750 kilometers) beneath the Earth's surface. The crust is ...

Scientists have always been curious about the atmosphere surrounding us, but in the past, they could not just hop on a spaceship to see what was up there. Instead, scientists hiked up high ...

The North American continent is "dripping" rock into the lower layers of the Earth, new research says, and in the process ...

In this type of fault, the block of rock above the fault plane, known as the hanging wall, moves downward relative to the block below, called the footwall. Normal faults are typically found at ...

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 ...

Over time, Earth's interior—which is made mostly of silicate rocks and metals—differentiated into four layers. At the ... Earth's outermost layer, the crust, rests. On land, the continental ...

Deep beneath the surface of our planet, from the Himalayas to East Africa and from the Atlantic seafloor to the Indian Ocean, ...

Your first challenge would be digging through the Earth's crust. It's the thinnest of Earth's three main layers, yet humans have never drilled all the way through it. As you descend, you'd soon ...