Volcanoes are cracks in Earth's crust that ... Or the crust can crack open enough to let melted rock from the next layer of Earth, the mantle, rise to the surface. One place this happens is ...

Scientists discovered that volcanic eruptions in India’s Deccan Traps 66 million years ago released gases that altered ...

Earth is divided into four layers: the inner core ... pushed upwards by the force of the plates' movement. Tall, steep volcanoes can also form as a result of the denser rock melting and the ...

As these seismic waves reverberate through the various layers of the Earth, scientists can interpret ... the researchers chose the La Soufrière volcano in Guadeloupe, in the Caribbean.

Layers of lava build up over time, creating volcanoes. Tectonic plates are key. They are large pieces of the Earth’s crust which can move towards, away from, or alongside one another ...

Beyond the outer core lies the mantle, a 1,800-mile-thick layer of viscous ... Planet Earth, explained Like Venus and Mars, Earth has mountains, valleys, and volcanoes. But unlike its rocky ...

Scientists now know how to drill deep enough to tap into an energy supply that would power the world for more than 20 million ...

Earth’s climate isn’t easy to cool down – especially if you want it cold enough for ice caps to form. According to a model of the geological forces shaping the climate over the past 420 ...

At the same time, however, these volcanoes could not ... hotter than the overlying layer), they are essentially fixed in place. By contrast, the Earth's crust (and, according to the traditional ...

An underwater volcano near the South Pacific island ... Stratosphere: one of the layers of Earth’s atmosphere, where the ozone layer is located Sulphur dioxide: a colourless, toxic gas released ...