Over time, cooling-induced convection as well as partial melting ... Moreover, the existence of imprints of small-scale mantle heterogeneity in basalts from diverse environments suggests that ...

These ancient buried "super-continents"—known to scientists as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs)—were found ...

Deeply hidden in Earth's mantle there are two huge "islands" the size of a continent. New research from Utrecht University ...

Explanations for the origin of this dichotomy primarily surround giant impactors (~2,000 kilometers in diameter) from space ...