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 ...

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 ...

Over 2,000 cases of cyberbullying have been reported in Sri Lanka so far in 2024, according to an official from the Sri Lanka ...

Additionally, a large region of upper mantle material, known as a "large mantle wedge," developed between the advancing slab ...

Geodynamics refers to the processes by which mantle convection shapes and reshapes the Earth and other rocky planets. Its study includes plate tectonics, volcanism, the chemistry of lava and ...

John Sclater, a geophysicist at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and a member of the first wave of ...