When the supercontinent Pangea began to fragment around 200 million years ago during the Early Jurassic, it reshaped the face of the planet. Vast new oceans opened, continents drifted apart and the ...

Stanford researchers have created the first-ever global map of a rare earthquake type that occurs not in Earth's crust but in our planet's mantle, the layer sandwiched between the thin crust and Earth ...

Stanford researchers have created the first-ever global map of a rare earthquake type that occurs not in Earth’s crust but in our planet’s mantle, the layer sandwiched between the thin crust and Earth ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: To understand the mantle—the largest layer of Earth’s rocky body—scientists drill deep cores out of the Earth. Scientists drilled the deepest core ...

Geologists have spent decades trying to punch through Earth’s crust to reach the mantle, the vast rocky layer that makes up most of the planet’s volume. In 2023, an international team working from a ...

A new global map reveals rare earthquakes deep in Earth’s mantle, offering an unexpected window into the hidden dynamics that shape our planet from below. Credit: SciTechDaily.com Scientists have ...

Researchers were once unsure whether mantle earthquakes existed. Now they have a global map of this mysterious phenomenon.

You will graduate from Saint Louis University with expertise in the specific subject areas in which you major or minor, but you’ll also leave the SLU College of Arts and Sciences with a well-rounded ...