New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

"Its deep, undisturbed waters have acted like a natural time capsule, trapping layers of sediment year after year, each ...

Normally, younger rocks are deposited above older ones, forming predictable geologic layers. In the North Sea, this process ...

Key Takeaways on Earth's Inner Core Earth's inner core is solid and blistering hot. For decades, scientists have known ...

Plans to expand stone quarrying to within 100-150 metres of an historic village near Banbury are being fiercely opposed.

Geologists have long debated whether a stony formation in Canada contains the world’s oldest rocks – new measurements make a ...

Over a thousand miles from the surface, in Earth’s D” layer—right on the edge of the liquid metal outer core—there is a weird acceleration of seismic waves. Experiments recreating the phenomenon in a ...

A ‘ghost plume’ identified deep in the mantle beneath Oman suggests there may be more heat flowing out of Earth’s core than previously thought ...

The Earth’s interior is far more complex than what we are taught in school. Instead of just three layers- crust, mantle, and core- the Earth is made up of multiple intricate layers, each with ...

The Earth is dangerously close to breaching its seventh planetary boundary, with ocean acidification approaching a critical threshold, according to a new report from the Potsdam Institute for ...

Scientific studies reveal a 9-mile diamond layer at Mercury's core-mantle boundary, influencing heat transfer and the magnetic field.

It also plays a crucial role in mantle convection and the thermal evolution of the Earth, acting as a thermal and chemical boundary layer between the hot core and the cooler mantle above.