The oceanic crust is generated at mid-ocean ridges through the ascent, storage and extraction of mantle-derived melts. As primitive magma ascends, it forms vertically extensive crystal mush zones in ...

In 1981, scientists discovered one of the thinnest portions of the Earth’s crust — a 1-mile (1.6 kilometers) thick, earthquake-prone spot under the Atlantic Ocean where the American and African ...

New research deepens the understanding of Earth's crust by testing and ultimately eliminating one popular hypothesis about why continental crust is lower in iron and more oxidized compared to oceanic ...

Earth's middle layer is chunky, like peanuts in a sea of caramel. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In Geology 101, Earth's ...

My research focus on constraining mantle-to-crust mass fluxes through the quantification of global average composition of the bulk oceanic crust, and the investigation of the relation between melting ...

In Geology 101, Earth's interior is divided into neat layers, like a sugar-coated jawbreaker. But it turns out that parts of the planet's middle layer might be more like peanuts in a sea of caramel.