Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

That’s the antipode, or opposite point on Earth’s surface, from my town. But I only had a garden spade to move the earth.

Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

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 ...

Researchers have discovered a 3.5-billion-year-old meteorite impact crater in Western Australia, providing new insights into ...

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Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

Earth is made out of different layers, and those layers get hotter and more pressurized the deeper you go. The first layer is the crust, a thin outer shell that extends about 18 miles (30 km ...

Research has since suggested they're at least, in part, composed of former oceanic crust. "It is … fascinating to see the ...

The world's oldest known impact crater has been identified at a site in the Pilbara, which is a part of Western Australia...

The find could hold implications for understanding the origin of life here on Earth.