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 ...

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

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

The Earth’s interior consists of multiscale structures that range from micrometer-scale mineral assemblages to 1000-km-scale heterogeneities. Mantle plumes are one such mega-scale structure that ...

The highest volcano in the world is Cerro Ojos del Salado. It is a stratovolcano in South America’s Central Volcanic Zone, reaching an impressive 6893 meters above sea level (or at least above ...

The shear mechanical compliance of the glass−rubber transition or softening zone of high molecular weight amorphous polymers typically increases from the glassy compliance of ∼10−10 cm2/dyn up to the ...