A new study has revealed that two continent-sized regions in Earth's deep mantle have distinctive histories and resulting ...

Deep within Earth’s mantle lie two enormous, continent-sized structures known as LLVPs. Scientists once believed these ...

An update of the convection code ASPECT enables full coupling of plume dynamics with buoyancy effects of transition zone ...

Surprising differences in the two so-called Large Low-Velocity Provinces may risk instability in Earth's protective magnetic field.

Scientists have been investigating colossal structures that exist deep inside of Earth's mantle beneath Africa and the ...

Continent-sized structures of mineral protruding from the lower mantle towards Earth's outer core may be contributing to an ...

A new study of decades worth of seismogram data shows that the surface of Earth’s iron and nickel core is more malleable than ...

The year after Wegener died, Arthur Holmes published his idea that thermal convection in the earth's mantle could cause continents to move. Holmes also suggested that the continents didn't move ...

The emerging model of mantle convection suggests that some relatively cool subducting slabs of oceanic plate (blue) are deflected at the 660 km discontinuity (dashed black line) whereas others ...

High-Resolution Anisotropic Tomography Reveals Mantle Flow Complexity and Slab-Plume Interactions, Redefining Subduction Zone ...

are where tectonic plates pull apart due to convection currents in the mantle. Most constructive plate boundaries are found on ocean floors. Some of these undersea volcanoes become so large that ...

A new study led by researchers at Cardiff University, the University of Oxford, the University of Bristol, and the University ...