The Earth’s interior is far more complex than what we are taught in school. Instead of just three layers- crust, mantle, and ...

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Frank Spear, Ph.D., professor of earth and environmental sciences and Edward Hamilton ...

It now also includes an exploration of the role of flexure in landscape evolution and dynamic topography and discussions of lithosphere memory, inheritance, and new NASA mission topography and gravity ...

Earth's crust, or the outermost shell of the planet, has drastically changed throughout geologic history, mostly due to the ...

Staudigel and H. Furnes Part V. Geochemical Fluxes: 19. Geochemical fluxes through mid-ocean ridge flanks C. G. Wheat and M. J. Mottl 20. Insight into the hydrogeology and alteration of oceanic ...

Rocks were flying everywhere, willy-nilly, smacking into the newly formed planets, pocking them with craters and gouging out ...

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

When plumes of magma well up through Earth's lithosphere, they create volcanoes, islands, seamounts, and other features on ...

New research reveals a hidden 1,500-kilometer impact structure on Venus, challenging our understanding of planetary impacts ...

One of the more stable formations of rock are land masses known as cratons, which contain old “roots” within the lithosphere from which tectonic plates extend. For example, the North American Craton ...

Research opportunities are available for students to work with our faculty studying the Earth’s complex evolving systems and the interrelations among the lithosphere, the hydrosphere, the cryosphere, ...

A volcano in eastern Indonesia erupted overnight, killing at least 10 people as it spewed fireballs and ash on surrounding ...