Remnants of a liquid layer of magma near Earth's core, formed in the first few hundred million years of the planet's history, ...

A chunk of ancient oceanic crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is pulling parts of North America's crust down into the ...

The Ocean Ridge is formed when magma rising between diverging plates of the lithosphere cools and forms a new layer of crust ... The Ocean Ridges are made up of elevated volcanic mountains ...

Now, people are only just realising that there’s a massive ocean ... made the findings at the time after studying earthquakes and discovering that seismometers were picking up shockwaves under ...

The paper advocates drilling intact oceanic crust to determine the Moho's petrological nature and resolve crustal composition misconceptions, ...

The Earth has a layered structure made up of the core, the mantle and the crust. Different elements are present in different parts of the Earth’s structure. The crust is made from enormous ...

It’s long been thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see in continents. The research shows this fingerprint existed in Earth’s first ...

But for two earthquake researchers, they found whale vocalization reflections could assist in measuring ocean crust structure. Their findings appear today (February 12) in Science. “It’s a nice ...