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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

The Hidden Story of the Venus Impact In our cosmic neighborhood's tumultuous youth, chaos reigned supreme. Picture a celestial shooting gallery where rocky projectiles careened through space, ...

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

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