This is the conclusion of researchers from the Washington University in St. Louis, who believe such a phenomenon could ...

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

The deep oceans are far from flat. They feature ridges, trenches, seamounts, and valleys, creating a diverse and dramatic ...

Venus—a hot planet pocked with tens of thousands of volcanoes—may be even more geologically active near its surface than ...

The Earth is made up of different layers: Therefore, instead of tectonic plates moving because of the convection currents ... tectonic plates sink into the mantle at subduction zones.

Your students will examine the locations of earthquakes, investigate why earthquakes occur and determine the value of being able to predict earthquakes. Distribute to students the CNN Student News ...

This movement is driven by the very slow creeping motion of Earth's mantle, called convection, which carry heat from the interior to our planet's surface. Researchers believe that convection in ...

The Earth has a layered structure ... Tectonic plates float on the semi-solid mantle, which moves very slowly as a result of convection currents driven by heat energy from the hot core.

Whether convection in the Earth's mantle extends through its entire depth or if the mantle is layered has long been debated. Recent research suggests that spatially and temporally intermittent or ...

Convection is the process that drives hot currents of gas or liquid upwards ... which can't sink into the Earth's dense mantle. For at least 80 million years the oceanic Indian Plate continued ...