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Geology Visual Lab

Photo of Susanto GangulyCreated by Susanto Ganguly

Cut the Earth open in 3D, follow rocks round the rock cycle and watch plates spread, sink, collide and slide — then from Steno's layers to marsquakes.

  1. Step 1Inside the Earth 3DA cut-away globe at true scale: crust, mantle, liquid outer core and solid inner core. See how earthquake waves revealed them.
  2. Step 2Rock cycle 3DMountains, volcano, sea and deep crust in one 3D block — igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks and how they change.
  3. Step 3Plate tectonics 3DAnimated spreading ridges, subduction zones, mountain-building collisions and sliding faults.
  4. Step 4Research timelineFrom Steno and Hutton to plate tectonics and the first marsquakes, with the original papers.
  5. Step 5Frontiers 2026Earthquake warning, the inner core, turning CO₂ into stone, critical minerals and more.