Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, shifting tectonic plates—these are all signs that our planet is alive. But what is revealed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Earth is made up of different layers: Therefore, instead of tectonic plates moving because of the convection currents, evidence suggests it is the plates that drive the convection. Slab pull ...

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 ...

It took 250 years for the Laschamps reversal to take place and it stayed in the unusual orientation for about 440 years. At ...

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 ...

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 ...

This current plays a critical role in Earth’s climate system by ... fromAntarctica’s ice sheet is disrupting the normal ...

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.

Fragmented into tectonic plates, the Earth's crust fits together like ... softened rock rises from the mantle, and convection currents pull it toward the surface. Generally, any material oozing ...