The vertical movement of the mantle is one of the driving forces that brings about large-scale geological changes to the ...

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

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

"This has profound implications for how we interpret surface volcanism, earthquake activity and the process of continental ...

Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it ...

Deep beneath East Africa, scientists have discovered powerful forces at work that could eventually split the continent in two and create a brand-new ocean—though not for a long while. New research ...

They reveal that the chemical composition of the deep mantle has remained almost intact since the Earth's formation 4.5 ...

The magnetized rocks of Earth's crust and mantle, also known as the upper lithosphere, accounts for generating 6 percent of ...