Geologists recently unveiled groundbreaking seismic evidence of massive, ancient “fortresses” located nearly 1,800 miles ...

New simulations reveal that an ancient ocean of magma located above the Earth's core continues to shape the planet's ...

Despite being composed of solid rocks, the Earth's mantle, which extends to a depth of ~2890 km below the crust, undergoes convective flow by removing heat from the Earth's interior.

However, scientists have had little practical understanding of how the presence of solid objects affects convection. Now, Jun Zhang and Bin Liu have done a simple table-top experiment that reveals ...

Signals from inside Earth: Borexino experiment releases new data on geoneutrinos Date: January 22, 2020 Source: Forschungszentrum Juelich Summary: The Borexino collaboration has presented new ...

The new experiment was created by Seth Putterman and colleagues at the University of California Los Angeles and it allowed the researchers to create gravity-driven circulation patterns. Convection ...

Finally, mantle convection is responsible for forming geothermal systems, like Yellowstone, and island archipelagos, like Hawaii, that crop up in the middle of tectonic plates.

Thirty-nine ocean bottom seismometers were deployed on the ocean floor across the Mid-Atlantic Ridge as part of the PI-LAB experiment. (The University of Southampton) (CN) — Material welling up from ...

These mineral grains are also much more rigid, making them capable of resisting the flow of Earth’s mantle, called mantle convection. “After all, ...

The project, called the Plume-Lithosphere Undersea Melt Experiment (PLUME), deployed a large network of seafloor seismometers at 73 sites off Hawaii during four research cruises over more than ...