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 Earth’s crust is disappearing right beneath our feet – and most people don’t even realise it. Now, if you’re a geologist, ...

Scientists have made significant progress in drilling into the Earth’s crust, reaching unprecedented depths that bring them ...

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

Mantle plumes are mysterious upwellings of molten rock believed to transmit heat from the core-mantle boundary to the Earth’s surface, far from the edges of tectonic plates.

This is the first time scientists have clearly found signs of material from Earth’s core in lava at the surface. Along with ruthenium, they also found small amounts of other metals like gold ...

Essentially, if the rocks had more 100 Ru than it “ought” to, as part of the Earth’s crust, that’s a pretty good sign that it originally came from the core, some 3,000 kilometers (1,864 ...

The mantle is a layer between Earth’s thin crust and molten core. New research reveals that two “supercontinents” hidden thousands of kilometers below the crust may serve as anchors in the ...

The Earth’s interior is far more complex than what we are taught in school. Instead of just three layers- crust, mantle, and core- the Earth is made up of multiple intricate layers, each with ...

Johan Lissenberg, Author provided If you were to slice through it, you would see the Earth is divided into distinct layers. On top is the relatively thin crust where we live. Beneath that is the 2,900 ...