Mantle Convection in the Earth and Planets is a comprehensive synthesis of all aspects of mantle convection within the Earth, the terrestrial planets, the Moon, and the Galilean satellites of Jupiter.

How plate tectonics works The driving force behind plate tectonics is convection in the mantle. Hot material near Earth's core rises, and colder mantle rock sinks. "It's kind of like a pot boiling ...

Exactly what drives plate tectonics is not known. One theory is that convection within the Earth's mantle pushes the plates, in much the same way that air heated by your body rises upward and is ...

Dynamic Earth presents the principles of convection in the earth's mantle in an accessible style. Mantle convection is the process underlying plate tectonics, volcanic hotspots and, hence, most ...

Whether convection in the Earth's mantle extends through its entire depth or if the mantle is layered has long been debated. Recent research suggests that spatially and temporally intermittent or ...

An unexpected find in tiny crystals hints that the Earth's mantle may not quite behave as has been believed for nearly a century.

Lava that erupts from hotspots around the world seems to come from a similar ancestral magma, new research finds.

Recent research has identified that significant changes in the Earth's mantle composition began about 300 million years ago, ...

Known to be relatively stable portions of the Earth's continental crust ... known as a "large mantle wedge," developed ...

The Earth is made up of different ... it is the plates that drive the convection. Slab pull occurs where older, denser tectonic plates sink into the mantle at subduction zones.

The idea that the Earth's crust and mantle might move together like a "conveyor belt" as a result of convection currents in the latter was first proposed in 1919 by the British geologist Sir ...