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

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.

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

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

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

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

The two continent-sized provinces have been known since the 1970s, but it’s only in the last few years we’ve started to ...

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.

By combining a model of mantle convection, including a reconstruction of how tectonic plates have moved over the Earth’s surface over the last billion years, the study has been able to show that ...

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 ...

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