This is the conclusion of researchers from the Washington University in St. Louis, who believe such a phenomenon could ...

Venus—a hot planet pocked with tens of thousands of volcanoes—may be even more geologically active near its surface than ...

The deep oceans are far from flat. They feature ridges, trenches, seamounts, and valleys, creating a diverse and dramatic ...

The Earth is made up of different layers: Therefore, instead of tectonic plates moving because of the convection currents ... tectonic plates sink into the mantle at subduction zones.

Whether convection in the Earth's mantle extends through its entire depth or if the mantle is layered has long been debated. Recent research suggests that spatially and temporally intermittent or ...

The Earth has a layered structure ... Tectonic plates float on the semi-solid mantle, which moves very slowly as a result of convection currents driven by heat energy from the hot core.

This movement is driven by the very slow creeping motion of Earth's mantle, called convection, which carry heat from the interior to our planet's surface. Researchers believe that convection in ...

We apply these models to a range of problems, including faulting, mantle convection, and melting and melt migration in the Earth’s mantle ... associated with earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

By combining a model of mantle convection, including a reconstruction of how tectonic plates have moved over the Earth's surface over the last billion years, the study has been able to show that ...