G eoscientists have used earthquakes to study the composition of the lower portion of the Earth’s mantle under the Pacific ...
A massive volcanic ridge beneath the Indian Ocean has just delivered a major surprise to geologists. According to a new study ...
New research led by a York University professor sheds light on the earliest days of Earth's formation and potentially calls ...
By combining a model of mantle convection, including a reconstruction of how tectonic plates have moved over the Earth's surface over the last billion years, the study has been able to show that ...
The Earth’s mantle, stretching up to 1,800 miles thick and making up a whopping 84% of the planet’s volume, used to be ...
Additionally, a trench-parallel mantle flow in the outer-rise asthenosphere—likely compressed by slab rollback—challenges conventional models of subduction-driven circulation. The Tonga ...
By combining a model of mantle convection, including a reconstruction of how tectonic plates have moved over the Earth's surface over the last billion years, the study has been able to show that ...
Wednesday March 26 – New research led by a York University professor sheds light on the earliest days of the earth’s formation and potentially calls into question some earlier assumptions in planetary ...