A new seismic study has uncovered large-scale deformation patterns nearly 1,800 miles beneath Earth’s surface. The findings ...

Slow roiling convection currents deep within Earth's mantle, which are associated with the movements of tectonic plates, also ...

Deep within Earth, subtle variations in how seismic waves travel are revealing a hidden pattern of deformation in the planet’s lowest mantle layer.

Sunken slabs from long-lost tectonic plates are still churning around in Earth's interior, far below your feet. In a new ...

Far below your feet, nearly 1,800 miles beneath oceans and continents, Earth carries two massive scars from its violent youth. They are so large they rival continents in size, yet no human will ever ...

The first step in gold’s journey does not happen in a mine, a fault, or a hydrothermal vent. It begins far deeper, in mantle ...

An ancient slab of Earth's crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is sucking huge swatches of present-day's North American crust down into the mantle, researchers say. The slab's pull has created giant ...

Earth’s deep interior still shapes the world above your feet. Water trapped far below the surface helps control how rocks move, melt, and recycle through the mantle. Some of that water carries a ...

Deep beneath island arcs, new research suggests that gold enrichment originates from repeated, high-degree melting of a ...

NSF: Researchers have found a primitive Earth mantle reservoir on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic. Geologist Matthew Jackson and his colleagues from a multi-institution collaboration report the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. An international team of researchers investigated how Earth’s ...

A new model suggests “mantle rain” ensures we will always have a surface ocean Theo Nicitopoulos, Hakai The Earth’s oceans have risen and fallen over the millennia. But they have, on average, been ...