Deep inside Earth, two massive hot rock structures have been quietly shaping the planet’s magnetic field for millions of ...

The continent-sized blobs are much hotter than the lower mantle, creating a significant temperature gradient in the rocky ...

Ancient rocks show Earth’s magnetic field followed deep heat patterns inside the planet for hundreds of millions of years.

It may seem counterintuitive to look to the rock beneath the ice of Antarctica to calculate how much ice will melt and how fast sea levels will rise due to climate change, but for the first time, ...

Far beneath the Atlantic, a vast distortion in Earth’s magnetic shield has been charted with a clarity that would have been unthinkable a decade ago. The South Atlantic Anomaly, a sprawling weak zone ...

While most of us take the ground beneath our feet for granted, written within its complex layers, like the pages of a book, is Earth's history. Our history. Research shows there are little-known ...

The Committee on Solid Earth Geophysics serves as the focal point for community discussion and community-agency interaction on issues related to the structure, dynamics, and evolution of the Earth.

The Earth’s inner core, a solid sphere predominantly composed of iron and nickel, occupies a central role in our planet’s evolution and geodynamo processes. Although hidden beneath thousands of ...