The researchers used seismic waves to examine the types of rock beneath the seafloor and create a digital cross-section of Earth's crust and mantle. The team published its findings Sept.

Caption Cross-section of the Earth (left) and the exoplanet Kepler-138 d (right). Like the Earth, this exoplanet has an interior composed of metals and rocks (brown portion), but Kepler-138 d also ...

Scientists went through one of the thinnest possible section of the crust on the ocean bottom, going through about 1400 to 1700 meters of rock. The deeper you drill into the Earth, then there is more ...

A cross section of Earth. Our planet consists of several layers: a solid inner core, a liquid outer core, the mantle, and finally, the crust. A cross section of Earth. Our planet consists of ...

According to the team, at intervals within those billion or so years, up to a third of Earth’s crust was sawn off by ... rock called Vishnu schist in a section of Blacktail Canyon in Arizona ...

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. Because they are so ...

Credit: Communications Earth & Environment (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01469-6 Cross-section of the crust south of Perth showing dykes picking up 3.4 billion-year-old zircon from depth and ...

Via simple yet eye-catching illustrations—a cross-section of Earth’s crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core is vibrantly rendered—the book highlights how one picture can truly be worth a ...