A reanalysis of paleomagnetic poles provides tighter bounds on the style and rate of motions of our whole planet with respect ...

Scientists' discovery of giant mantle structures reveals deep Earth mysteries beneath Africa and the Pacific Ocean. The post ...

Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

On Earth, convection deep in the mantle provides the energy that drives plate tectonics. The Earth's crust, about 40 kilometers thick in continents and 6 km in ocean basins, is too thin and cool to ...

Future missions to Venus could also supply additional data on the density and temperature of the planet's crust, which could ...

New findings provide a greater understanding of plate subduction, or how tectonic plates slide beneath one another. This recycling of surface materials and volatile elements deep into the Earth's ...

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 ...

New research reveals a surprising link between the ancient tectonic history of oceanic plates and their fate as they subduct ...

Venus may be far more geologically alive than anyone expected. New research suggests its outer crust could be churning with ...

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 ...

By decoding the hidden forces shaping Earth’s interior, this work exemplifies how cutting-edge seismology can illuminate the intricate dance between tectonic plates and mantle convection—a ...

Dominated by silicate-rich minerals with high iron and magnesium content the mantle is predominantly solid but behaves as a viscous flow that creeps with geodynamic timescale. This movement drives ...