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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 ...
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 ...