Home Mantle Page 5

Mantle

Latest

Dynamic nature of Earth’s interior.

Mantle Plume Initiation and the Role of Large Low-Shear-Velocity Provinces (LLSVPs)

February 6, 2026

The East African Rift System

A giant pulse beneath Africa could split the continent — and form an ocean

Schematic representation of the process of subduction of tectonic plates and of a mantle plume rising from an LLSVP. In the latter, the mineral grains are larger than those in the subducted plates.

Earth’s mantle reveals hidden treasures

"Lava" Earth's mantle

New research reenvisions Earth’s mantle as a relatively uniform reservoir

Effect of Al + H incorporation on the sound velocities of superhydrous phase B Schematic representation of the incorporation of aluminum together with water (as Al + H) in the crystal structure of superhydrous phase B. credit : Geodynamics Research Center, Ehime University

Water delivered to the mantle by aluminum enriched hydrated slabs?

Carbon cycle reaches Earth’s lower mantle, Science study reports

September 20, 2011

1...3 45Page 5 of 5

Related Articles

All

Neopterygian Fish with Secondary Sexual Characteristics Found from the Middle Triassic of China

January 27, 2016

‘Fool’s Gold’ from the deep is fertilizer for ocean life

September 17, 2011

Researcher reconstructs skull of two million year-old giant dormouse

July 11, 2020

New theories about nature of Earth’s iron

March 20, 2017

What do lentils have to do with geology?

January 27, 2016

Europe’s very own dinosaurs – the enigmatic Late Cretaceous rhabdodontids

September 30, 2023