Watch the fascinating processes through which energy travels across the Earth, atmosphere, and even into space. Energy ...

If you’re wondering what exactly a convection current is, here’s an official definition from the Berkeley UC Museum of Paleontology: “Convection currents are heat-driven cycles that occur in ...

While there may be convection currents in the mantle of a planet or moon below its lithosphere, these currents do not provide enough stress to break or drag the lithosphere along with them in a ...

The dynamo theory stated that the slow cooling of the liquid iron and nickel core drove circular currents of liquid material in the outer core, called convection currents.