Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

The emerging model of mantle convection suggests that some relatively cool subducting slabs of oceanic plate (blue) are deflected at the 660 km discontinuity (dashed black line) whereas others ...

Overall, Professors Sun and Tkalčić determine that mantle convection is the primary cause of Mars's unusual dichotomy, not giant impacts as the alternative hypothesis suggests. But their ...

Mars presents one of the Solar System's greatest mysteries: the Martian dichotomy, a phenomenon noted since the 1970s. This involves a distinct ...

Over 25 years ago, researchers discovered that some of these deep Earth reverberations pointed to the existence of two underground “super-continents” hundreds of miles beneath Africa and the Pacific ...

We apply these models to a range of problems, including faulting, mantle convection, and melting and melt migration in the Earth’s mantle, as well as to societally-relevant issues, such as the dynamic ...

Therefore, they do not take part in mantle convection (the flow in the Earth's mantle). Thus, contrary to what the geography books teach us, the mantle cannot be well-mixed either. Talavera-Soza ...