Until now, it was widely believed that the inner core was a dense ball of iron floating at the centre of the molten outer ...
Volcanoes and earthquakes are both natural phenomena driven by the dynamic processes that shape Earth’s interior and surface.
Roughly 250 million years ago, traveling from present-day Australia to North America would have been surprisingly simple-a ...
They move slowly on the more fluid layer beneath them, the asthenosphere. Convection currents in Earth's mantle drive the movement of tectonic plates. Tectonic plates interact at their boundaries ...
A scientist has warned that an area of East Africa could break away from the rest of the continent sooner than previously ...
The Geological Society of London says of Africa’s severing: ‘Today the EAR remains above sea level however in the future, as ...