"We don't know exactly what they are or what material is creating the patterns we have uncovered," researcher Thomas Schouten said.

Hidden deep beneath the Pacific Ocean, researchers have uncovered anomalies in the Earth’s mantle that defy existing ...

Geophysicists at ETH Zurich are using models of the lower mantle to identify areas where earthquake waves behave differently ...

Instead, the shell (which we call the crust) is split into several rigid plates. These are the tectonic plates. Tectonic plates are also not fixed — they move around atop the mantle and are ...

This week GNS released a high resolution update to the national Active Faults Database, detailing where the active faults are across the motu to support planning and engineering.

Assad’s ouster marks “a tectonic shift” in the region, with “consequences that are going to reverberate” well beyond the Middle East, Mehran Kamrava, a professor of government at ...

This includes the movements of the Earth’s tectonic plates that result in the creation, destruction and rearrangement of the Earth’s crust and lithosphere. The formation of porphyry copper ...

That process is plate tectonics, in which Earth continuously subsumes and reforms the slabs of its rocky outer shell. It is thought to be inextricably linked to habitability and perhaps an ...

Pie pans or pie plates come in different materials, sizes and shapes. And while they may seem mostly decorative, they do have an impact on how a pie turns out. “That said, for beginners and less ...

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