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, ...

New research traces the origins of Earth’s most powerful volcanic eruptions to mysterious continent-sized structures deep ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Plate tectonics – Mineral olivine is crucial for heat transport in the mantle. University of Potsdam. Journal Nature Communications DOI 10.1038/s41467-025-61148-8. Keywords ...