The mantle of the Earth, up to 1,800 miles (2,900 kms) thick and 84% of the Earth's volume, was assumed to be a simple ...

Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

The high temperature of the LLVPs, and their positioning in the deep mantle on each side of the planet, means that they affect how heat is extracted from the Earth's core. This impacts convection ...

Researchers explore the likelihood that Earth's climate, as affected by solar heat, plays a role in seismic ... with the planet's crust, core, and mantle. In Chaos, by AIP Publishing, researchers ...

Scientists now know how to drill deep enough to tap into an energy supply that would power the world for more than 20 million years if we capture just 0.1 percent of it.

“Solar heat drives atmospheric temperature changes, which in turn can affect things like rock properties and underground water movement,” said author Matheus Henrique Junqueira Saldanha.

This makes it important to understand the structure of the LLVPs and how they influence heat extraction from the core. Scientists now need to account for this asymmetry in mantle density within ...

Earth’s climate over millions of years is shaped by both internal forces, like volcanic activity, and external ones, such as ...