Far below our feet, two colossal structures the size of continents sit atop Earth’s core, one beneath Africa and one beneath the Pacific Ocean. These dense, hot anomalies have puzzled geophysicists ...

What is beneath the continent of Africa? There are two big structures down there that do not seem to be from our planet, ...

The geology of the ocean floor is truly spectacular — perhaps even more than land geology. Unfortunately, it's really hard to study.

When you think of the tallest mountains on Earth, Mount Everest probably comes to mind. But what if we told you that the real ...

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A peek into the curious geology of the Pacific Northwest helps tease apart what may happen when the last bits of an oceanic plate get swallowed up. Scientists on board the R/V Thomas G. Thompson ...

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