Dynamic nature of Earth’s interior.

Mantle Plume Initiation and the Role of Large Low-Shear-Velocity Provinces (LLSVPs)

Professor Andreas Pack (left) and Dr Christian Schröder (right) are part of the 21-member team of authors who wrote the current study. Photo: MPS

Preparing for Mars Samples on Earth

An ice sample on the melter during continuous ice core chemical analyses in the lab (credit: Sylvain Masclin).

Scientists Find the First Ice Core From the European Alps That...

The near surface of the inner core may be changing. (USC Graphic/Edward Sotelo)

How solid rock flows 3,000 kilometers beneath us

Early Earth was bombarded by meteors which played a crucial role in disrupting and recycling Earth’s first crust.

Early Earth’s first crust composition discovery rewrites geological timeline

Artistic view of Earth’s interior during mantle solidification in the first hundreds of millions of years of Earth’s history. Gravitational segregation of dense, iron-rich magma (in orange) likely formed a basal magma ocean atop the core, that can explain the present-day structure of the lower mantle.

Earliest days of Earth’s formation

The near surface of the inner core may be changing. (USC Graphic/Edward Sotelo)

Earth’s inner core is undergoing a transformation

Schematic representation of the process of subduction of tectonic plates and of a mantle plume rising from an LLSVP. In the latter, the mineral grains are larger than those in the subducted plates.

Earth’s mantle reveals hidden treasures

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New simulation method sharpens our view into Earth’s interior

A polarized microscope photo of basaltic rock. Credit: Esteban Gazel Lab/Provided

Scientists compile library for evaluating exoplanet water

"Lava" Earth's mantle

New research reenvisions Earth’s mantle as a relatively uniform reservoir

A diagram showing seismic waves traveling through Earth where the newly discovered doughnut-shaped region was detected. Image: Xiaolong Ma and Hrvoje Tkalčić/ANU

Doughnut-shaped region found inside Earth’s core deepens understanding of planet’s magnetic...

Earth’s interior. Credit: Michael Thorne

Decoding mysterious seismic signals

An outcrop called ‘the Bubble’ on Eileach an Naoimh (Holy Isle). It shows a huge white rock fragment, tens of metres across, which was originally part of the underlying rock sequence. The layering in the carbonate rock has been squeezed tightly under immense pressure and transported by thick ice sheets to its final resting as one of many different rock fragments within a moraine. Credit: Graham Shields

Scottish and Irish rocks confirmed as rare record of ‘snowball Earth’

Structure layers of the earth.

Researchers unveil mysteries of ancient Earth

A thin slice of the ancient rocks collected from Gakkel Ridge near the North Pole, photographed under a microscope and seen under cross-polarized light. Field width ~ 14mm. Credit: E. Cottrell, Smithsonian.

New study supports stable mantle chemistry dating back to Earth’s early...

Porous dolomite rock with cavities that would be ideal for geothermal utilisation. © RUB, Marquard

Hot traces in rock

inner core (USC Graphic/Edward Sotelo)

The rotation of Earth’s inner core has slowed, new study confirms

JPL / NASA

Laser tests reveal new insights into key mineral for super-Earths

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Fresh findings: Earliest evidence of life-bringing freshwater on Earth

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