A massive volcanic ridge beneath the Indian Ocean has just delivered a major surprise to geologists. According to a new study ...
The deep oceans are far from flat. They feature ridges, trenches, seamounts, and valleys, creating a diverse and dramatic ...
After suspecting the presence of a series of underwater volcanoes near the Cook Islands, researchers have now mapped out the ...
The Earth’s mantle, stretching up to 1,800 miles thick and making up a whopping 84% of the planet’s volume, used to be ...
This is a 3D view of the top 1,000 kilometers of the earth's mantle beneath the central Pacific showing the relationship between seismically-slow "plumes" and channels imaged in the study.
The source for the isotopically-enriched Hawaiian magmas contains peridotites that experienced near-surface melting prior ...
The DanSeis Centre at the University of Copenhagen has just received a grant of more than €3 million from the Danish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Higher Education to investigate and tackle one ...
Conducted by researchers from Ocean University of China and Tohoku University, Japan, the work combines innovative seismic methodologies to map mantle flow patterns, slab-plume interactions ...