After NASA's Mercury Surface, Space Environment and Geochemistry Ranging (MESSENGER) mission ended in 2015, the crust of the solar system's innermost planet was thought to be roughly 22 miles (35 ...

Scientists have unveiled a new map of Europe that provides an unprecedentedly detailed answer to the question: how deep is Europe's crust? While the Earth's global crust is an average of eight ...

Geological investigations in the Himalayas have revealed evidence that when India and Asia collided some 90 million years ago, the continental crust of the Indian tectonic plate was forced down under ...

Earth's Crust 1 made China the third country to successfully develop the 10,000-meter drilling rig in the world after the deepest borehole to be drilled for scientific purposes by Asians was completed ...

An epic collision between two ancient continents pushed the Himalayas up fom the Earth's surface. That much is known, but a new study reveals how deep the unseen wreckage penetrated underground.

UPDATE: The paper related to this research has been retracted by the journal Geology. The article below remains as originally published, but should no longer be considered valid. An epic collision ...

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