The Earth has a layered structure made up of the core, the mantle and the crust. Different elements are present in different parts of the Earth’s structure. The crust is made from enormous plates ...
About 1,800 miles beneath the surface, Earth's internal structure changes abruptly where the solid rock of the mantle meets the swirling molten iron of the outer core. But the boundary between the ...
The structure of earth is in spherical form and is composed of four layers, three solid and one liquid which is in the form of molten metal, and is hot as the surface of the sun. A fruit such as a ...
More insights about Earth's core have arrived through some detailed examinations. A team of researchers believes that the inner core is made of two distinct layers. The finding has been explained in ...
Scientists believe that Earth's core is a massive ball of iron. However, a new discovery suggests that the Earth's core is surrounded by an unexpected ancient structure. A high-resolution map of the ...
Researchers have detected a large, previously unknown structure—consisting of unusually dense, hot rock—deep inside the Earth below the Pacific Ocean. The structure, known as an ultralow-velocity zone ...
Scientists have uncovered a vast donut-shaped structure buried thousands of miles beneath our feet. Researchers from the Australian National University used seismic waves generated by earthquakes to ...
The interior of the Earth, like that of the other terrestrial planets, is chemically divided into layers. The Earth has an outer silicate solid crust, a highly viscous mantle, a liquid outer core that ...