"This has profound implications for how we interpret surface volcanism, earthquake activity and the process of continental ...

Earth's continents may look fixed on a globe, but they've been drifting, splitting and reforming over billions of years—and ...

By simulating the movement of two continent-sized Big Lower-Mantle Basal Structures, or BLOBs, researchers may have uncovered ...

Mantle plumes are important geologic processes—they interact with plate tectonics, create rich mineral deposits, and even ...

A recent study published in Geophysical Research Letters has uncovered new insights into one of Earth’s most puzzling ...

Tungsten (W), a hard, heat-resistant, and corrosion-resistant metal, is indispensable to modern high-tech industries—from ...

A Prehistoric Ocean Floor Hidden Deep Within the Mantle. The study, led by Jingchuan Wang, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Maryland, reveals that a dense slab of oceanic crust sank ...

A plume of searing hot rock as wide as the continental U.S. is rising up from near the core of Mars and might help explain recent volcanism and earthquakes seen at the Red Planet, scientists say.