Due to the radiative thermal conductivity of the mineral olivine, only oceanic plates over 60 million years old and ...

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More information: T. Ohuchi et al, A Stress Memory Effect in Olivine at Upper Mantle Pressures and Temperatures, Geophysical Research Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1029/2025GL114960 ...

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

As the Aral Sea has been drained by irrigation and dried up, the mass loss on the surface has caused Earth’s upper mantle to rise up, lifting the emptied sea bed an average of 7 millimetres per year ...