To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. Mantle Convection in the Earth and Planets is a comprehensive synthesis of all ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

My research group develops geodynamic models to relate laboratory-based rheologic and petrologic models to the large-scale behavior of the Earth. We apply these models to a range of problems, ...

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

Alternatively, as shown in the diagram, convection currents under the Earth’s crust transfer heat, which rises through the surface and cools back down in a circular motion. The convection ...

Known to be relatively stable portions of the Earth's continental crust, cratons have remained largely ... Additionally, a ...

Some of the most sophisticated models of the Earth's interior ever constructed ... early ideas suggested the plates simply rode convection cells in the mantle like groceries on a supermarket ...

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 ...