Beneath the Himalayas, the Indian Plate is doing something geologists once thought continents largely avoided: it is coming ...

Thick crust and wet lava around the Azores volcanoes may trace to ancient seawater stored 400 miles down and tapped by a ...

Ancient rocks on the coast of Oman that were once driven deep down toward Earth's mantle may reveal new insights into subduction, an important tectonic process that fuels volcanoes and creates ...

Seismic waves from earthquakes have always offered a window into Earth’s hidden interior. For decades, researchers believed they had a firm grasp on how these waves revealed the rocky mantle’s secrets ...

That would have enabled more of this organic carbon—and carbonate accumulating in shallow water around Columbia—to be ...

Scientists have discovered that hot, molten rock is pulsing from deep within the Earth's mantle beneath Ethiopia's Afar ...

Deep below the Tyrrhenian Sea offshore Italy, scientists drilled into what they thought would be dark mantle rock—and found ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The plate tectonics that determine the shape of our continents may have ...

Mantle helium detected: Gas analysis from Kafue Rift hot springs shows isotope ratios matching mantle sources, indicating deep fluid pathways through the Earth's crust. Potential continental split: ...

On present-day Earth, plate subduction continuously modifies the chemical composition of the convecting mantle, and various mantle sources linked to these processes have been widely studied. However, ...

Earth was mostly devoid of oxygen for much of its 4.5 billion year lifetime. That is, until certain processes started to ...