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 ...

Seismic waves generated in Earth's interior provide images that help us to better understand the pattern of mantle convection that drives plate motions. You have full access to this article via your ...

A buried wedge of stiff mantle rock might be the reason why the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau have stayed so high for ...

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 ...

In the absence of a 6,000 km-deep hole to conduct observations, scientists hoping to learn about the internal structure of the Earth presently have few options but to monitor seismic waves. However, ...