Earth's mantle is split by the Pacific Ring of Fire, an ancient schism that reflects the creation and destruction of the supercontinent Pangaea, a new study finds. One of these sections contains ...

Imagine if the Earth beneath our feet was not the solid, unchanging rock we thought it was. A recent groundbreaking study has ...

called “plates,” that glide over Earth's mantle, the rocky middle layer above Earth’s core. Earth’s solid outer layer, which includes the crust and the uppermost mantle, is called the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Earth's mantle is split by the Pacific Ring of Fire, an ancient schism that reflects the ...

A team of European researchers discovered a new high-pressure mineral in a lunar meteorite which is helping to explain what happens to materials within the extreme pressures of the Earth’s mantle. The ...

It creates the Earth's magnetic field and is about 1,400 miles (2,300 kilometers) thick. The next layer is the mantle. Many people think of this as lava, but it's actually rock. The rock is so hot ...

The team hopes its new circulation models will provide fresh insights into how the mantle has influenced the Earth's surface over hundreds of millions of years. "In the same way that the study of ...

The Earth is made of different layers: the core, mantle and crust. Plate tectonic theory shows that the crust of the Earth is split into plates (pieces of the Earth’s crust). The movement of ...

The Earth has a layered structure made up of the core, the mantle and the crust. Different elements are present in different parts of the Earth’s structure. The crust is made from enormous ...