An update of the convection code ASPECT enables full coupling of plume dynamics with buoyancy effects of transition zone ...

We investigate the influence of present-day thermal, compositional and geometric structures in the crust and mantle on the topography of the southern Scandes and ... but contributes only slightly to ...

Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago has found evidence via lab experiments that show the Earth's mantle is far more complex than previously known. In their study, published ...

Abstract: The Massif du Sud ophiolite, New Caledonia, SW Pacific, is one of the largest exposed ultramafic bodies on Earth. The ophiolite consists of a mantle section of ultra-depleted tectonite ...

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds. Known as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs), these blobs are both hotter and ...

LLSVPs in Earth's mantle are over a billion years old These formations may influence volcanic activity worldwide Larger crystals in LLSVPs reduce seismic wave energy loss ...

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 ...

It helps gold stay dissolved rather than clinging to the solid mantle. Once the complex is formed, gold becomes more mobile in the molten sections of Earth’s interior. Fluid and melt can then carry it ...

The UFC commentator read up on the topic on air and explained that scientists believe it could contain water within its structure, deep in the Earth's mantle transition zone. Rogan also ...

Researchers have extensively studied the mineral diversity in Earth's mantle ... of minerals that may exist within Earth's transition zone and lower mantle, despite the differing formation ...