Water-bearing subducted slabs may not dehydrate and contribute to chemical heterogeneities at the core–mantle boundary, according to high-pressure and high-temperature melting experiments.

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

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead ...

Scientists of course cannot cut into Earth and directly observe its insides. Instead, their knowledge is inferred from the ...

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

The Earth is made of different layers: the core, mantle and ... in the mantle separate, like this, plates move apart. This is called a constructive or divergent plate boundary.

"We have known for years that these islands are located at the boundary between the Earth's core and mantle. And we see that seismic waves slow down there," Deuss said. "The waves slow down ...

Nobody knew what they are, and whether they are only a temporary phenomenon, or if they have been sitting there for millions ...

Beneath that is the 2,900 km thick mantle ... lies at the boundary of two of the tectonic plates that cover the Earth. At this boundary between plates, Africa and Europe are separating from ...

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