E xtinct volcanoes that lurk around Rapa Nui, aka Easter Island, may challenge some parts of the standard explanation about ...

Tiny minerals are revolutionizing our understanding of textbooks. Easter Island consists of several extinct volcanoes. The ...

On present-day Earth, plate subduction continuously modifies the chemical composition of the convecting mantle, and various mantle sources linked to these processes have been widely studied.

The two tremors shifted the entire Anatolian plate to the west, a phenomenon that necessitates a reevaluation of existing ...

Cratons are believed to be the longest-lived regions of the Earth, but a new study shows how dynamic processes can cause ...

Researchers from the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS), along with collaborators from ...

The Earth doesn’t have seven continents after all. From a young age, we're taught that the world consists of Africa, ...

An unusual concentration of impact craters suggests that they may have been caused by the breakup of an asteroid that created ...

For many years, scientists have believed that the Earth’s mantle – the layer beneath its surface – moves like a giant ...

On present-day Earth, plate subduction continuously modifies the chemical composition of the convecting mantle, and various mantle sources linked to ...

An unexpected find in tiny crystals hints that the Earth's mantle may not quite behave as has been believed for nearly a century.