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A phase change in post-perovskite materials at the so-called D” discontinuity is also evidence for long-predicted slow, convective flows in the mantle itself ...
Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it ...
Scientists have traced a 60-million-year volcanic trail from Iceland to Ireland to a deep mantle plume that shaped the North ...
Over a thousand miles from the surface, in Earth’s D” layer—right on the edge of the liquid metal outer core—there is a weird ...
Something unusual is happening deep within Earth’s mantle,around 1,700 miles below the surface, where seismic waves accelerate in a way that has left scientists scratching their heads for decades.
Scientists believe that gold and other precious metals are slowly leaking to the surface from Earth's core through Hawaiian ...
Not only that, Soto is part of a special class, including Mantle and Mel Ott as the only players with 1,000 hits, 200 home runs, and 700 walks before the age of 27, per Bob Nightengale of USA Today.
Mantle plumes rise from the boundary of the Earth’s outer core, bringing extra heat to the underside of the Earth’s crust. In familiar cases, that heat drives magma through the crust ...
Soto is one base hit away from joining Mickey Mantle and Mel Ott as the only players in baseball history to have 1,000 hits, 200 home runs and 700 walks before turning 27 years old, per USA Today ...
In what could first-of-its-kind discovery, researchers have found a ghost plume slowly under Oman, rising quietly for centuries. These plumes are columns of very hot rock that rise from deep inside ...