Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

For the first time, an international team of scientists recovered a long section of rocks that originated in the Earth’s mantle.This layer just below the crust is the largest part of the planet ...

I was part of an international team which retrieved a record-breaking 1,268m-long drill core (a long cylindrical sample of rock collected by the drill) of mantle rock from the seabed.

Beneath Ethiopia, the Earth’s mantle is pulsing like a slow, steady heartbeat, slowly tearing Africa apart and laying the ...

In East Africa's Afar Depression, scientists have discovered that fresh lava from deep within the Earth's mantle is driving ...

Geologists Uncover Remnants of Earth’s Mantle That Have Lasted Over 2.5 Billion Years New research suggests that a discrepancy in rocks shows they endured extreme heat, and reveals more about an ...

In the mantle, a wave of convecting material (bottom center) propagates outward from the rift. This mantle wave scours material from the thermal boundary layer, a relatively weak part of the ...

Scientists have detected rhythmic pulses of molten rock rising beneath eastern Africa, threatening to pull the continent ...