IN reference to the letter of Dr. Harold Jeffreys (NATURE, July 29, 1922), I wish at once to say that nothing in ... time or other, the earth may well have possessed a crust consolidated from ...

Beneath California's Sierra Nevada mountains, the crust is peeling away. This process, called lithospheric foundering, is nothing to worry ... the upper part of Earth's mantle and part of the ...

An analysis of Hawaii’s volcanic rocks revealed Earth’s core is leaking gold and other precious metals, a study found. The ...

Beneath the American Midwest, on the continent of North America, the underside of Earth's crust is dripping into ... underlying the region. It's nothing to worry about. Only recently discovered ...

In a stunning discovery, scientists have confirmed the presence of a hidden underground ocean deep below the Earth’s crust ... new questions about where else water could be hiding.

"I mean, there are microbes living under glaciers and a kilometre down in the crust [of the Earth.]" When I feel ... not only is there not nothing, but in fact in the years — actually, the ...

Why would any planet have two different peaks for the distribution of elevation? For Earth, the explanation is relatively straight forward: we have two types of crust. Oceanic crust that underlies the ...

Stable parts of the Earth's crust may not be as immovable as previously thought. While much of the crust is affected by plate tectonic activity, certain more stable portions have remained ...

Recent evidence suggests that Earth's crust and oceans may have formed within ... If Earth becomes uninhabitable we have nowhere else to go. Colonizing the Moon and Mars is no substitute for ...

The scientists found that in the central region of the mountain range, Earth’s crust is currently peeling ... or even anywhere else on a continent. And, you know, there’s stuff going on ...

The cooling process that created Earth’s crust and jumpstarted the movement of plates didn’t happen overnight, which means that for a long while our planet was a big ball of nothing but water.