Deep within Earth’s mantle lie two enormous, continent-sized structures known as LLVPs. Scientists once believed these ...

An illustrative diagram showing the ancient subducted 'slab' the team resolved at present day. It has a direct impact on the large-scale lowermost mantle structures known as 'superplumes'.

A breakthrough study has provided the most detailed 3D look yet at the inner workings of the Tonga Subduction Zone, where ...

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds. Known as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs), these blobs are both hotter and ...

The Earth is made up of different layers ... Slab pull occurs where older, denser tectonic plates sink into the mantle at subduction zones. As these older sections of plates sink, newer and ...

In this diagram, the red lines represent ... Earth's structure that can be easily extracted. The mantle is the thickest layer of the Earth and is made of semi-solid rock that moves very slowly ...

A new study has revealed that two continent-sized regions in Earth's deep mantle have distinctive histories and resulting ...

Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago has found evidence via lab experiments that show the Earth's mantle is far more complex than previously known. In their study, published ...

High-Resolution Anisotropic Tomography Reveals Mantle Flow Complexity and Slab-Plume Interactions, Redefining Subduction Zone ...