Continents drift apart in slow, powerful motions that reshape the world above and below your feet. A new study now shows that ...

Recent findings have unveiled a startling reality: the Earth’s crust is showing signs of significant instability. From the ...

Mantle convection is one of the key dynamic processes inside rocky planets, driving volcanism, plate tectonics, and magnetic field generation. Understanding mantle convection, through simulation and ...

Geologists have stumbled on what they call gigantic fortresses lying almost 1,800 miles (2,900 kilometers) below our feet in Earth’s mantle. New seismic evidence shows how these subterranean bulwarks ...

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The evolution of mantle composition can be viewed as a process of destruction whereby the initial chemical state is overprinted and reworked with time. Analyses of ocean island basalts reveals that ...

We explore the element redistribution at mid-ocean ridges (MOR) using a numerical model to evaluate the role of decompression melting of the mantle in Earth's geochemical cycle, with focus on the ...

1 Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China 2 Laboratory of Geomechanics, Sсhmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth of the ...

Scientists have revealed that two continent-size regions in Earth's deep mantle have distinctive histories and resulting chemical composition, in contrast to the common assumption they are the same. A ...

Scientists have been investigating colossal structures that exist deep inside of Earth’s mantle. Located beneath Africa and the Pacific Ocean, the underground “islands” were first discovered in the ...

The proposed changes through Earth’s history in the behavior of mantle plumes, illustrated from 3 billion years ago to present in a clockwise direction. The model assumes that the mantle has been ...