Oct 9, 2023 · The mantle isn't liquid, but it's less rigid than sinking oceanic crust, Sunyoung Park, an assistant professor who studies Earth's internal structure at the University of Chicago, told Live Science.

Mar 12, 2022 · Earth's interior is made up of a series of layers that sit below the surface crust. In order of depth, these layers include the solid, but flowing mantle, the liquid outer core and the solid iron ...

Jan 21, 2025 · Tectonic plates are slabs of rock in Earth's crust and upper mantle. What word designates this portion of Earth's interior? Which of these is not a conspiracy theory about Earth?

Jan 14, 2025 · A new way of measuring structures deep inside Earth has highlighted numerous previously unknown blobs within our planet's mantle. These anomalies are surprisingly similar to …

Mar 11, 2025 · Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

Feb 10, 2025 · The surface of Earth's inner core appears to be dynamic, changing shape as it rotates, earthquake waves reveal.

Oct 4, 2024 · Researchers created a seismic map of Earth's interior beneath the southeastern Pacific Ocean and discovered an ancient slab of oceanic crust that appears to be stuck midway through the …

Jul 18, 2011 · A main source of the 44 trillion watts of heat that flows from the interior of the Earth is the decay of radioactive isotopes in the mantle and crust. Scientists using the KamLAND neutrino ...

Sep 14, 2024 · The inner core was discovered in 1936, and its size (about 20% of Earth's radius) is one of the best-constrained properties of the deep Earth.

Jan 23, 2025 · Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds.