The vertical movement of the mantle is one of the driving forces that brings about large-scale geological changes to the ...

Mantle plumes were the implicit link in previous studies relating BLOBS to giant volcanic eruptions. Their shape is a bit ...

Giant, large-scale eruptions can have more serious impacts. One such event contributed to the demise of the dinosaurs 66 ...

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Wu Fuyuan, an academician of the CAS and a corresponding author of the study, said the moon displays an asymmetry between its ...

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

Scientists have discovered an unusually thick mantle transition zone beneath the Lesser Antilles. This discovery sheds new light on how oceanic plates sink into the Earth's mantle. Variations in rock ...

A series of recent findings from the Chang’e-6 mission have significantly advanced our understanding of the Moon’s far side, ...

Scientists found a rhythmic mantle plume beneath Ethiopia is slowly tearing Africa apart - hinting at the birth of a new ...

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

Photo: Courtesy of the CAS . The Global Times learned Thursday from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) that four studies ...

A plume of molten rock deep beneath eastern Africa is pulsing upward in rhythmic surges, slowly splitting the continent and ...