New research has dramatically reshaped our understanding of Earth’s early geological history, overturning traditional beliefs ...

Colossal volcanic eruptions like the kind that may have obliterated the dinosaurs more than 65 million years ago are caused ...

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

Tectonic plates are massive slabs of Earth's lithosphere that float atop the semi-fluid mantle, constantly shifting and ...

This study presents a new 1.8-billion-year full-plate tectonic model, integrating geological and paleomagnetic data to ...

Due to the radiative thermal conductivity of the mineral olivine, only oceanic plates over 60 million years old and ...

A phase change in post-perovskite materials at the so-called D” discontinuity is also evidence for long-predicted slow, ...

For example, the density difference assumption is unreasonable, the mantle convection model is inaccurate, the material exchange and interactions between the crust and the mantle are insufficiently ...

A coefficient of performance (COP/sub T/) analysis for plate fin heat sinks in forced convection is presented and shown to provide a viable technique for combining least-material optimization with the ...

Earth's magnetic field and oxygen levels have increased more or less in parallel over the past 540 million years, suggesting ...