Water from both volcanic rocks and deep mantle melted Earth's crust 1.6 billion years ago. This long-lasting melting formed ...

Remnants of a liquid layer of magma near Earth's core, formed in the first few hundred million years of the planet's history, ...

sinking through the global magma ocean into the Earth’s core. “I realised there might be a connection between early core formation, high siderophile element patterns, and the infamous negative niobium ...

Until now, the scientific community debated the starting point of liquid mantle solidification: did it begin deep within the ...

As the Earth's crust shifted and groaned over millions of years, something extraordinary happened beneath the surface. Deep ...

Deep beneath the surface of our planet, from the Himalayas to East Africa and from the Atlantic seafloor to the Indian Ocean, ...

When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a ...

The paper advocates drilling intact oceanic crust to determine the Moho's petrological nature and resolve crustal composition misconceptions, ...

A study published in Nature reveals that Earth's first crust ... the global magma ocean into Earth's core. "I realized there might be a connection between early core formation, high siderophile ...

Remnants of the magma ocean my still exist today as LLVPs, or giant "blobs" in Earth's mantle. (Image credit: By Sanne.cottaar - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link) Phases of formation The process would ...