How plate tectonics works The driving force behind plate tectonics is convection in the mantle. Hot material near Earth's core rises, and colder mantle rock sinks. "It's kind of like a pot boiling ...

Lava that erupts from hotspots around the world seems to come from a similar ancestral magma, new research finds.

An unexpected find in tiny crystals hints that the Earth's mantle may not quite behave as has been believed for nearly a century.

On present-day Earth, plate subduction continuously modifies the chemical composition of the convecting mantle, and various mantle sources linked to these processes have been widely studied.

Known to be relatively stable portions of the Earth's continental crust ... known as a "large mantle wedge," developed ...

The plum rain is a persistent and extensive rainfall phenomenon that frequently occurs in East Asia during summer, primarily ...

Deep beneath our planet, two gargantuan, continent-size blobs of sizzling material rise from Earth’s hot, liquid outer core into its rock-filled mantle layer. Scientists can’t directly see ...

A mysterious find on Easter Island, investigated by a team of geologists, suggests that the Earth's mantle seems to behave differently than once thought. Geography textbooks describe the Earth's ...

The North China Craton (NCC) is a very old and stable geological structure, experiencing deformations since the Mesozoic era.

Police yesterday said that they suspected that the deadly shooting in Ambalangoda on Sunday (Oct 10), which claimed the lives ...

Democratic Tamil National Alliance Jaffna district contestant Sashikala Raviraj has alleged that though she had been attacked ...

The idea that the Earth's crust and mantle might move together like a "conveyor belt" as a result of convection currents in the latter was first proposed in 1919 by the British geologist Sir ...