Earth has multiple layers: the crust, the mantle, the liquid outer core and the solid inner core.
(Image credit: NASA)
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Quickly Rising Antarctica Suggests 'Runny' Earth -
Buried 'Soda Fizz' May Solve Mystery of Coasting Tectonic Plates -
Missing Xenon Gas Found in Earth's Core -
Rare Diamond Reveals Earth's Interior is All WetA battered diamond that survived a trip from "hell" confirms a long-held theory: Earth's mantle holds an ocean's worth of water.
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Tiny Crystal Defects Help Drive Plate TectonicsResearchers recently discovered a new crystal defect in olivine that helps explain how the mantle drives plate tectonics.
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Early Earth's Crust Was a Drippy, Hot MessChunks of the thick crust that covered the early Earth may have dripped down into the mantle layer below, shedding light on how the Earth's interior behaved early in Earth's history.
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Floating Seismic Devices Peer Deep Beneath Ocean Floor -
Magma Ocean Could Have Given Early Earth Magnetic Field -
Deadly New Zealand Earthquakes Weakened Earth's CrustThe earthquakes that struck New Zealand's South Island in 2010 and 2011, the second of which killed scores of people, weakened the crust around the ruptured fault.
