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Chemical fingerprints from volcanic rock offer hints of what’s happening in the mantle below the area where three rift zones ...
The vertical movement of the mantle is one of the driving forces that brings about large-scale geological changes to the ...
In East Africa's Afar Depression, scientists have discovered that fresh lava from deep within the Earth's mantle is driving ...
In the Afar Depression of East Africa, a remarkable geological transformation is unfolding, with scientists revealing that ...
In astonishing new footage, Indonesia's Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki volcano spews a toxic column of ash measuring around 63,000 ...
Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it ...
Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...
They reveal that the chemical composition of the deep mantle has remained almost intact since the Earth's formation 4.5 ...
"This has profound implications for how we interpret surface volcanism, earthquake activity and the process of continental ...
A phase change in post-perovskite materials at the so-called D” discontinuity is also evidence for long-predicted slow, convective flows in the mantle itself ...
Have you heard or read about the Axial Seamount? The Axial is an underwater volcano located approximately 480 kilometers ...
Beneath Ethiopia, the Earth’s mantle is pulsing like a slow, steady heartbeat, slowly tearing Africa apart and laying the ...