Text and pictures by PRIYAN DE SILVA   The Institute for Development of Community Strength (INDECOS) which is based in Matara ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Iron monoxide may act as a heat conductor from Earth’s core, affecting tectonic and volcanic activities on the surface. This discovery sheds light on the deep mantle’s properties and their impact on ...

They examined the chemistry of 3,983 samples from midocean ridges, where the tectonic plates are spreading apart and magma from the shallow mantle is oozing and hardening into volcanic rock ...

as modern imaging techniques have not been able to identify convection currents within the mantle that are large enough to move tectonic plates. As a result this theory has been largely discredited.

There are three types of convergence. Our first type of convergence is continental vs continental. When two continental plates collide they cannot sink into the mantle, so there is no subduction.