One of the most puzzling phenomena lies beneath the Indian Ocean, south of Sri Lanka, where a massive gravity anomaly known as the Indian Ocean Geoid Low (IOGL) has confounded researchers for decades, ...

In a groundbreaking scientific achievement, researchers have successfully drilled the deepest-ever core sample from Earth's ...

Cratons are fascinating yet enigmatic geological formations. Known to be relatively stable portions of the Earth's ...

By AJA Abeynayake The Court of Appeal yesterday fixed for Nov. 19 the consideration of a petition filed by former State ...

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 ...

If there’s one setting that has sat untouched on your oven since its installation, it’s probably the classic convection bake. This underrated feature can make your food cook faster and taste even more ...

University of Orléans, INSA-CVL, PRISME, EA 4229, 45072 Orléans, France Department of Marine Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA ...

As the solute concentration increases, a stably stratified layer emerges beneath the interface, leading to the transition from thermal convection to penetrative convection, which resembles those flow ...

We apply our understanding to geological and geophysical processes such as faulting, plate flexure, mountain-building, plate tectonics, volcanism, mantle convection, gravitation, glacial flow, and sea ...

The Earth's mantle might not always move along in lockstep with the overlying tectonic crust—as set out in science textbooks for decades—but may instead behave differently. This is the conclusion of ...