Known as stratigraphic inversion, this discovery challenges our fundamental understanding of how Earth’s layers are formed. A ...

Explore Earth's hidden layers beneath our feet. This kid-friendly guide includes a neat diagram and fun descriptions of the 4 layers of the Earth.

Earth is made up of several layers: the lithosphere, asthenosphere, lower mantle (also known as mesospheric mantle), outer core and inner core. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu ...

Like Don's stack of fish-wiches, this globe shows us the layers that make up our Earth-- the thin, solid outermost layer, the crust, the denser, deeper layer, the mantle, and, finally, the really ...

The mantle is the layer of the earth that lies below the crust and is by far the largest layer making up 84% of Earth's volume. The mantle starts at the Mohorovicic Discontinuity , also known as ...

Troposphere: This is the lowest layer of Earth’s atmosphere. The bottom of the troposphere is at Earth’s surface, and it extends up about 6.2 miles (or 33,000 feet).

In 1970, Russian geologists drilled a nine-inch wide hole into the Kola Peninsula’s Baltic Shield — a part of Earth’s crust with rock well over a billion years old — and began digging as deep as they ...

Scientists previously believed the Earth has four layers. New research says there may actually be five. By Matthew Rozsa. Published March 4, 2021 5:27PM (EST) ...

The new layer is located around 100 miles beneath the surface and appears to extend below much of the Earth’s outer crust. Learning more about it could help decipher the mysteries of plate ...

For example, the tropopause exists between the troposphere, the layer that kisses the Earth, and the stratosphere, the next layer up. If you are an airline traveler, ...

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown layer of Earth. The newly discovered region of molten rock sits 100 miles below the crust and covers at least 44 percent of the planet.

In high school science class, textbooks often feature a recognizable image of the Earth and all its layers—currently, that’s the crust, outer and inner mantle, and outer and inner core.