Lake sediment cores in Guatemala reveal directional ground shaking from the 1976 earthquake, offering rare insight into ...

A new study indicates that Mercury's core-mantle boundary (CMB) may possess a diamond layer that extends up to 18 kilometers ...

By Bobby Bascomb Scientists have identified nine planetary boundaries that help regulate a livable planet. Human activities have pushed six of those nine critical Earth systems beyond safe limits, ...

Researchers are now trying to understand the "innermost inner core" of the Earth by studying how seismic waves travel through ...

As of late March, sea-surface temperatures in the region of the equatorial Pacific have shifted closer to average, signaling the end of a weak La Niña. However, the exact timing of the transition from ...

The South Snowy Block is found along the northern boundary of Yellowstone National ... The magma crystallized as layers, earning a special classification as a geologic formation known as a layered ...

Instead, poor fossilization conditions and unexposed late Cretaceous rock layers mean they're either not preserved or hard to find.

In the summer and winter, the lakes separate into distinct temperature layers: warmer at the surface in summer and colder in winter. It's why ice forms at the surface during winter and doesn't sink.