The impact that carved out the moon's huge South Pole-Aitken basin may explain the puzzling differences between the lunar ...

Gigantic hidden fortresses discovered 1,800 miles underground in Earth's mantle, rewrite how the planet's interior works.

China's Chang’e-6 mission has delivered the first-ever samples from the Moon’s far side, shedding light on one of planetary ...

One of Earth's two mysterious mantle blobs is much higher than the other, ... 2 giant blobs in Earth's mantle may explain Africa's weird geology. News. By Stephanie Pappas published 14 March 2022 ...

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 ...

For 60 years, scientists have tried to get rock samples of the Earth’s mantle. But the geologic layer below the planet’s crust is incredibly difficult to reach. Scientists believe they’ve ...

The recent discoveries contradict the descriptions of a very fluid and well-mixed mantle found in most geology textbooks. Such a potentially major seismological revision reverberates far beyond ...

Earth's crust once formed a dense "root" supporting Colombia's northern Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains, but new research suggests this prop sank into the mantle millions of years ago.

The Earth's mantle flows far more rapidly around a sinking tectonic plate than previously thought, according to new computer modeling by UC Davis geologists. The findings could change the way that we ...

To explore whether these magma volumes required a plume or, instead, could have resulted from the increased ambient mantle temperatures expected for the Neoproterozoic, we used a geodynamic model ...

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