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

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

New research reveals that only the oldest and fastest-sinking oceanic plates can transport water deep into Earth’s mantle, ...

Tungsten (W), a hard, heat-resistant, and corrosion-resistant metal, is indispensable to modern high-tech industries—from ...

Volcanic planets with static crusts, called Ignan Earths, can maintain liquid oceans and temperate climates favorable to life.

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 ...

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

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

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 ...