A massive volcanic ridge beneath the Indian Ocean has just delivered a major surprise to geologists. According to a new study ...

New research is reshaping how scientists understand the earliest days of Earth’s formation—suggesting that the deep interior ...

Scientists uncover surprising evidence that the Kerguelen hotspot, responsible for the 5,000-kilometer-long Ninetyeast Ridge, ...

The mantle is the rocky envelopment that surrounds ... work that he has been doing since his Ph.D. Boukaré's model is based on a multiphase flow approach that allows for capturing the dynamics ...

New research sheds light on the earliest days of the earth's formation and potentially calls into question some earlier assumptions in planetary science about the early years of rocky planets.

Scientists have long been puzzled by volcanoes that erupt far from the edges of tectonic plates—known as intraplate volcanoes ...

Conducted by researchers from Ocean University of China and Tohoku University, Japan, the work combines innovative seismic methodologies to map mantle flow patterns, slab-plume interactions ...

The mantle of the Earth, up to 1,800 miles (2,900 kms) thick and 84% of the Earth's volume, was assumed to be a simple ...

Surprising differences in the two so-called Large Low-Velocity Provinces may risk instability in Earth's protective magnetic field.

Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

Wednesday March 26 – New research led by a York University professor sheds light on the earliest days of the earth’s formation and potentially calls into question some earlier assumptions in planetary ...