Minerals recovered from the deep mantle provide a rare glimpse into deep Earth processes. We report the first discovery of ferric iron-rich majoritic garnet found as inclusions in a host garnet within ...

A group of attorneys general, led by Letitia James of New York, argues that National Science Foundation programs are critical for leading in science and technology.

For decades, scientists debated whether the Indian Plate was simply underplating — slipping beneath Tibet’s crust — or subducting deeper into the Earth.

What are Earth’s plate tectonics? All you need to know about the three major boundaries Plate tectonics have served as natural engineers in the shaping of our landmasses over eons. Updated: Mar ...

Yves Moussallam, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, San Diego, will give a talk titled "Transferring Volatiles from Asthenosphere to Atmosphere" at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, October 5 ...

Silicon is a primordial element, created during the Big Bang or by nuclear fusion during a supernova. It's the eighth most abundant element in the observable Universe, but the third most abundant on ...

Scientists at ETH Zurich and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have found massive structures deep beneath the Pacific waters that 'shouldn't exist'.

Schmerr, N. (2012). The Gutenberg Discontinuity Melt at the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary. Science, 335, 1480-1483.

It stimulates the radioactive nuclei to enter the excited state, increases their decay probability, releases more thermal energy, provides energy for magma formation, extraction, transport, and ...

In a new study, scientists found that several rigid tectonic plates which are under the Pacific Ocean are being pulled apart. Earth has an outer shell, which is called the lithosphere and is divided ...

A team of geophysicists have presented a new study which suggests one of the world's largest countries is splitting in two. The theory was first presented at the American Geophysical Union conference ...