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

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

Conductive heat flow depends on temperature gradients and thermal conductivity, which are both very challenging to determine for the deep mantle 14,18 and core 19.It has been proposed that ...

The unusually warm section of the Earth’s mantle beneath Oman sparked curiosity about hidden plumes that shift known ideas of Earth’s processes.

Mantle plumes are important geologic processes—they interact with plate tectonics, create rich mineral deposits, and even ...

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

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

Geoscientists have made an unprecedented achievement on their 60-year quest to know more about Earth's mysterious depths. Pieces of Earth’s rocky mantle were collected by a drilling vessel ...

The mantle, a zone between our planet’s thin crust and the molten core, features 1,800 miles (2,900 kilometers) ... or movement of materials in that layer due to heat transfer.