China is set to venture where humanity has scarcely been before: beneath the Earth's crust, into its mantle. To achieve this ...

A stunning claim, but certainly Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology, published in 1830 ... Lyell argued that the formation of Earth's crust took place through countless small changes occurring ...

The film explores the dynamic nature of Earth's crust, detailing how it has evolved over billions of years. Initially formed from molten rock, the crust cools and hardens, leading to the creation of ...

It was a respectable tenure, but the world’s oldest known meteorite site is no longer western Australia’s 2.2 ...

The findings, published in Geology, revealed that as they scraped deep into Earth’s ancient continental crust, they sent a flood of weathered materials into the oceans, altering ocean chemistry and ...

About 700 million years ago, enormous glaciers flowed across the Earth's surface in powerful frozen rivers like "giant ice ...

Surprising differences in the two so-called Large Low-Velocity Provinces may risk instability in Earth's protective magnetic ...

A reduction in seafloor spreading millions of years ago may have led to deeper ocean basins and a significant sea level drop.

Iron oxide minerals are found in rocks around the globe. Some are magnetic, and some of them rust—especially when exposed to ...

Mars’ thick crust may have been a hidden engine of geological activity, producing granitic magmas and sustaining underground ...

Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments called plates—and that these plates can grow, shrink and move around ...