China is set to venture where humanity has scarcely been before: beneath the Earth's crust, into its mantle. To achieve this ...

One of the worrying consequences of climate change is the rising sea level. This situation threatens many territories, ...

With a global average pH of 8.1 ocean water is slightly alkaline. But the good news is that our bodies can handle it – ...

Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

Surrounded by green hills and beige rock, Lake Salda sits in what is sometimes called the Turkish Lake District, a great ...

Deep within Earth’s mantle lie two enormous, continent-sized structures known as LLVPs. Scientists once believed these ...

A new study has revealed that two continent-sized ... One common hypothesis is that the LLVPs are made up of oceanic crust that was pushed into the mantle at subduction zones.

Drewitt, J. W. E., Walter, M. J., Zhang, H., McMahon, S. C., Edwards, D., Heinen, B. J., Lord, O. T., Anzellini, S., & Kleppe, A. K. (2019). The fate of carbonate in ...

Eventually, a new ocean basin forms ... and at the mid-ocean ridges that divide the oceanic crust. The mid-ocean ridges mark the lines along which the Earth is turning itself inside out through ...

Continental and oceanic plates all fit together to form the outer crust of the planet. Eight major plates are named on the diagram below. Heat from the core makes magma in the mantle rise towards ...