Scientists' discovery of giant mantle structures reveals deep Earth mysteries beneath Africa and the Pacific Ocean. The post ...

On Earth, convection deep in the mantle provides the energy that drives plate tectonics. The Earth's crust, about 40 kilometers thick in continents and 6 km in ocean basins, is too thin and cool to ...

Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

A reanalysis of paleomagnetic poles provides tighter bounds on the style and rate of motions of our whole planet with respect ...

Future missions to Venus could also supply additional data on the density and temperature of the planet's crust, which could ...

Venus, the hottest planet in the solar system, is estimated to have 85,000 volcanoes, based on radar images from NASA's 1989 ...

New findings provide a greater understanding of plate subduction, or how tectonic plates slide beneath one another. This recycling of surface materials and volatile elements deep into the Earth's ...

The emerging model of mantle convection suggests that some relatively cool subducting slabs of oceanic plate (blue) are deflected at the 660 km discontinuity (dashed black line) whereas others ...

Venus may be far more geologically alive than anyone expected. New research suggests its outer crust could be churning with ...

New research reveals a surprising link between the ancient tectonic history of oceanic plates and their fate as they subduct ...

It is unlikely that the Earth's mantle — the layer beneath the crust and above the core — was completely homogeneous when it initially formed. Over time, cooling-induced convection as well as ...

A high-density rain gauge observational network in Taiwan reveals that multiple precipitation peaks exist over the mountainous island during summer afternoon convection. This contrasts with ...