Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

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 ...

Dr. Panton and his team’s work paves the way for future studies on mantle plumes, subduction, and the long-term recycling of oceanic crust, helping us better understand the forces shaping our planet’s ...

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Their results showed that Elysium Planitia sits over a giant mantle plume spanning a diameter of about 4,000 kilometers (2,485 miles) and is between 96 and 285 degrees Celsius (170 to 520 degrees ...

However, because hydrated slabs enter the mantle in different locations and ... a long timescale with multiple subduction events is needed to hydrate the MTZ and possibly trigger intraplate ...

Submarine topographic map of the Manila subduction zone. Showing the locations and depths of earthquakes with magnitudes of 5 (Mw) and above that have occurred along the Manila Trench. In order to ...

We finally know where two giant blobs in Earth's middle layer came from — and they're a mismatched pair. These strange regions in Earth's mantle, known as "large low velocity provinces" (LLVPs), are ...

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Others have suggested that the blobs are huge chunks of oceanic crust that were pushed into the mantle when one tectonic plate slipped under another — a process known as subduction. The crust ...

Kavachi's most violent recent eruption was in October 2016 when a jet of volcanic debris was ejected above the ocean's surface. (Image credit: Alex DeCiccio/Wikimedia) The plume in the photo is ...