Pontus was first suspected to be buried beneath the western Pacific over a decade ago, as seismic waves traveling through ...

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

A phase change in post-perovskite materials at the so-called D” discontinuity is also evidence for long-predicted slow, convective flows in the mantle itself ...

Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it ...

They reveal that the chemical composition of the deep mantle has remained almost intact since the Earth's formation 4.5 ...

The record-breaking mission offers an unprecedented opportunity to study the geology of our planet’s largest layer.

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

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

A ‘ghost plume’ identified deep in the mantle beneath Oman suggests there may be more heat flowing out of Earth’s core than ...

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

Pieces of Earth’s rocky mantle were collected by a drilling vessel called the JOIDES Resolution about a mile beneath the North Atlantic ocean floor at an underwater mountain called Atlantis ...