Three significant new findings of our study are that: (1) mantle upwelling and asthenospheric flow are skewed beneath the plate boundary, and thus the delivery of mantle melt is in many places not ...

A groundbreaking geological study, unveiled during the latestAmerican Geophysical Union (AGU) conference, is stirring up the ...

A new study shows that large-scale upwelling within Earth's mantle mostly occurs in only two places: Beneath Africa and the Central Pacific. These upwelling locations have remained remarkably ...

A research team utilized teleseismic double-difference tomography technology to uncover the morphological changes of the ...

The research supports the argument that Venus’ tectonics are active today, he says. What’s more, the demonstrated ability of computer simulations to predict what spacecraft may observe will be a boon ...

A massive African superplume appears to be driving the divide of one of the world's largest continents. Here's what we know.

Stretching 4,000 miles, the East African Rift System is one of the largest in the world—and scientists just uncovered the ...

Researchers have found fresh evidence that Africa is breaking apart because of a deep mantle superplume of hot rock beneath ...

It's thought that mantle upwelling beneath the High Atlas, more so than the slow convergence, is a main reason why these peaks reach as high as they do. By examining geodetic and seismic data ...

The hotter temperatures of the transition zone likely facilitated an "upwelling" of hot rock from Earth's lower mantle to its upper mantle that actively pushed the plates apart, Agius said.

Honolulu, HI – A study published in Nature today shares the discovery that large-scale upwelling within Earth's mantle mostly occurs in only two places: beneath Africa and the Central Pacific.