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

But there's something really weird about Venus. Though the hellish world has beautifully preserved impact craters on its ...

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

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

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

Cratons are believed to be the longest-lived regions of the Earth, but a new study shows how dynamic processes can cause their eventual disintegration.

and Earth’s solid crust in the lithosphere. ‘This is the first time that water sloshing has been recorded as vibrations ...

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 ...

One discovery that ought to be on everyone's rundown is plate tectonics - the description of how the rigid outer shell of our planet (its lithosphere) moves and is recycled. The theory celebrates ...

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

Geochemical fluxes through mid-ocean ridge flanks C. G. Wheat and M. J. Mottl 20. Insight into the hydrogeology and alteration of oceanic lithosphere based on subduction zones and arc volcanism S. M.

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