Geologists have made certain assumptions about how the crust making up our planet's earliest surface formed, but a new study has found that Earth's very first protocrust was surprisingly similar to ...

Water from both volcanic rocks and deep mantle melted Earth's crust 1.6 billion years ago. This long-lasting melting formed ...

The record-breaking mission offers an unprecedented opportunity to study the geology of our planet’s largest layer.

Now, people are only just realising that there’s a massive ocean hidden under the Earth’s crust. It turns out there’s a huge supply of water 400 miles underground stored in rock known as ...

Researchers have made a new discovery that changes our understanding of Earth's ... rock covered the planet's surface. The team's calculations showed the protocrust -- Earth's earliest crust ...

The crust is made from enormous plates which move very slowly due to movements of the mantle below. The Earth's structure. Planet Earth is not a solid ball of rock, it's made up of different layers.

Beneath the American Midwest, on the continent of North America, the underside of Earth's crust is dripping into the planetary interior. There, blobs of molten rock are coalescing in the upper ...

Seismic imaging reveals a funnel-shaped region beneath the Midwest, drawing rock ... Earth's mantle. This phenomenon is gradually stripping away material from the bottom of the continent's crust.

Below the Earth’s surface, a maze of underground tunnels and shafts pierces 3 kilometers of ancient volcanic rock. Were it not for a huge ventilation ... journeys into the planet’s crust to hunt for ...