Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 511 ... suggesting that small-degree melts of subducted crust are efficient agents of chemical mass-transfer in the upper mantle and transition zone, and leave ...

How does the Earth generate its magnetic field? While the basic mechanisms seem to be understood, many details remain ...

To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. Mantle Convection in the Earth and Planets is a comprehensive synthesis of all ...

Whether convection in the Earth's mantle extends through its entire ... the effects of water may keep the transition zone enriched in trace elements 10, and a concentration of trace elements ...

J. Falloon Part III. Structure and Mechanical Behaviour of the Modern Mantle: 8. Seismic structure of the mantle - from subduction zone to craton B. L. N. Kennett and R. D. van der Hilst 9.

the intrinsic property of elastic materials that produces the directional dependence of seismic wave speed and polarization has been observed in many regions of the Earth's interior including the ...

The team hopes its new circulation models will provide fresh insights into how the mantle has influenced the Earth's surface over hundreds of millions of years. "In the same way that the study of ...

The Earth is made up of different layers ... Slab pull occurs where older, denser tectonic plates sink into the mantle at subduction zones. As these older sections of plates sink, newer and ...