Learn how seismic waves helped identify rare mantle earthquakes deep below Earth’s crust, offering new insight into the ...
New research identifies how two vast, hot rock structures in the planet’s mantle produce unusual magnetic activity.
Stanford researchers have created the first-ever global map of a rare earthquake type that occurs not in Earth's crust but in ...
The subduction zones where oceanic plates sink beneath the continents produce volcanic arcs such as those that make up the “rim of fire” around the Pacific Ocean. The volcanoes are fed by molten rock ...
The record-breaking mission offers an unprecedented opportunity to study the geology of our planet’s largest layer.