A new study traces a 120-million-year-old 'super-eruption' to its source, offering new insights into Earth's complex geological history.

The Earth is made up of different layers: Therefore, instead of tectonic plates moving because of the convection currents, evidence suggests it is the plates that drive the convection. Slab pull ...

The movement of these tectonic plates leads to earthquakes and ... in the centre of the Earth, and is the hottest layer. It is spherical and solid and made up of iron and nickel.

The modeling showed that niobium would be attracted to Earth's core, with no plate tectonics required. It means continental crust formation may have been a part of the original process of layer ...

The colorful swirls and stripes that characterize China's Rainbow Mountains would have remained hidden without the epic tectonic collision that created the Himalayas.

Science is advancing and with it, fascinating and unique things are being discovered, as has happened in the Pacific Ocean. A group of researchers from ETH Zurich and the Californi ...

At the end of the last Ice Age, around 10,000 years ago, the melting of massive glaciers may have done more than just raise ...

Iran's folded rocks are a colorful formation that is part of the Greater Caucasus mountains, which formed when the Eurasian ...

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