Non-mixing layers of water and hydrocarbons thousands of miles deep could explain the icy planets’ strange magnetic fields.

How did Earth transform from a hostile, acidic ocean world to one that nurtured life? Scientists at Yale and in Singapore ...

Roughly 250 million years ago, traveling from present-day Australia to North America would have been surprisingly simple-a ...

Scientist have concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as previously thought, an insight that bears directly on the question of when life originated on the planet. The finding ...

Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS Energy LLC, and has more than three decades of experience as a business executive. He is a professor of economics and has raised more than $4.5 billion in ...

Others have suggested that the lithosphere, a layer of the Earth’s mantle that ‘floats’ on the more fluid-like and weaker asthenosphere, could be to blame. You can think of it like an ...

Will any continent split in two one day? Yes. While how the Earth will look in millions of years can be hard to predict, scientists already know that Africa is splitting. For one, ...

The Geological Society of London suggests that the phenomenon could be a result of the heat flow from the asthenosphere ... indicative of a thinning of the lithosphere, with some degree of ...

This course deals with the composition and evolution of the crust, lithospheric mantle and asthenosphere. Seismic imaging techniques ... and present state of the continental as well as oceanic ...

The outermost layer of Earth, the lithosphere, is composed of solid ... They move slowly on the more fluid layer beneath them, the asthenosphere. Convection currents in Earth’s mantle drive ...

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