Earth's solid surface, or lithosphere, extends more than a hundred miles into the planet. It's broken into large chunks, and the convection currents of molten rock below exert pressure on these ...

The solidification of the outer core releases heat which drives convection currents in the outer core that helps to generate Earth's magnetic field. The swirling motion of the outer core generates ...

The crust of volcanically active Venus could be churning with convection currents just like the Earth's mantle. This is the conclusion of researchers from the Washington University in St. Louis ...

Early in the days of plate tectonic theory, geologists and geophysicists assumed plates move because of mantle convection. Currents of hot, molten material rising inside the Earth push the ...

The only adequate mechanisms for continental drift which have yet been suggested are based on the activity of convection currents in the Earth's mantle.

The study, published in Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, suggests that Venus’ outer crust is much more dynamic, continuously reshaping itself through convection currents that help ...

These polygons are formed by slow convection currents in a 4 km-thick layer of solid nitrogen ice. "Pluto is probably only the second planetary body in the solar system, other than Earth ...

releasing heat and creating convection currents. This convection generates Earth’s magnetic field. Earth’s inner core seems to be slowing its spin The inner core, which was discovered in 1936 ...

Although we’ve hardly scratched Earth’s surface (the center lies nearly 4,000 ... As heat from the red-hot inner core radiates outward, it drives turbulent convection currents in the outer core. All ...