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

Artifacts from the Iron Age have revealed an intense historical magnetic anomaly in the Middle East. Could using a similar ...

Earth's mantle, the large zone of ... Viscosity jump in Earth's mid-mantle. Science, December 11, 2015 DOI: 10.1126/science.aad1929; Maxim Ballmer, Nicholas Schmerr, Takashi Nakagawa and Jeroen ...

How Earth's mantle is like a Jackson Pollock painting Date: May 20, 2019 Source: University of Utah Summary: New research paints an intricate picture of Earth's mantle as a geochemically diverse ...

Mantle plumes are important geologic processes—they interact with plate tectonics, create rich mineral deposits, and even ...

Mission to drill into Earth's mantle, called Project Mohole, is revived by scientists, who are investigating possible sites and technologies to drill deeper than anyone has before.

Earth’s mantle is warmer than previously thought, suggests a new experiment that better accounts for water content in rocks. ... A measure of mantle melting. Science. Vol. 355, March 3, 2017, ...

Earth's mantle, not its core, may have generated planet's Early magnetic field Scripps Oceanography researcher's assertion bolstered by series of new studies ...

Scientists assumed Earth's mantle, the layer stretching from the crust to a depth of 255 miles, ... Science News. June 6, 2019 / 1:26 PM Earth's mantle is magnetic, researchers find.

Scientists discover that large amounts of nitrogen could be hidden in the Earth's metallic core, which would solve a ...

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds. Known as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs), these blobs are both hotter and ...

Scientists use Earth's mantle to hunt for new particles, such as the unparticle, ... The experimental results appear in the Feb. 22 issue of the journal Science. You may like ...