Since the formation of Earth approximately 4.5 billion years ago, the convection and release of hot magma in its mantle layer ...

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 ...

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

But to find that complexity, we must take the lessons of the boring billion to heart. Planets are not just a stage on which ...

The mantle is split up into two domains — the African and the Pacific — that emerged when supercontinent Pangaea broke apart. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Cratons are fascinating yet enigmatic geological formations. Known to be relatively stable portions of the Earth's ...

Convection is the process that drives hot currents ... which can't sink into the Earth's dense mantle. For at least 80 million years the oceanic Indian Plate continued its inexorable collision ...

On present-day Earth, plate subduction continuously modifies the chemical composition of the convecting mantle, and various mantle sources linked to these processes have been widely studied.

The North China Craton (NCC) is a very old and stable geological structure, experiencing deformations since the Mesozoic era.

“This study provides a first present-day example of how a cold downwelling from above is breaking up a deep mantle blob,” says Sanne Cottaar, a professor of global seismology at the University ...

He aims to prove that he carry the mantle of the team's undisputed primary starter for a full season and not just portions of the year. Ersson started two games during the preseason. He notched a ...

The mantle is split up into two domains — the African and the Pacific — that emerged when supercontinent Pangaea broke apart.