Sometimes, you know, often, when you go to a museum, you see a cross section of the Earth’s mantle, which is basically everything between the iron, nickel core and the crust. It's most of the Earth by ...

McArie Island, located between New Zealand and Antarctica, is a geological treasure that offers a glimpse into Earth’s deep past. Unlike most islands, McArie is composed entirely of oceanic crust and ...

In 1981, scientists discovered one of the thinnest portions of the Earth’s crust — a 1-mile (1.6 kilometers) thick, earthquake-prone spot under the Atlantic Ocean where the American and African ...

The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...

This is a cross-section of Earth's ozone layer as measured by the limb profiler, part of the Ozone Mapper Profiler Suite that's aboard the Suomi NPP satellite.

The type of lithosphere here is a craton – a particularly large, stable section of Earth's crust that has been around, relatively unchanged, for a very long period of time.

Researchers have discovered a hidden part of Earth's crust in a Finnish outcrop in Northern Europe. (Image credit: Andreas Petersson) Previous research uncovered evidence for early Archean crust ...

Geologists have long debated whether a stony formation in Canada contains the world’s oldest rocks – new measurements make a ...

The oldest rocks in Australia, which are some of the oldest on Earth, are found in the Murchison district of Western Australia, 700 kilometres north of Perth. ... Cross-section of the crust south of ...