It is unlikely that the Earth's mantle — the layer beneath the crust and above the core — was completely homogeneous when it initially formed. Over time, cooling-induced convection as well as ...

Earth's continental configurations have changed dramatically over its billions of years' history, transforming not only their ...

A giant sphere 700 m (2,300 ft) underground with thousands of light-detecting tubes will be sealed in a 12-storey cylindrical ...

An unexpected find in tiny crystals hints that the Earth's mantle may not quite behave as has been believed for nearly a ...

China's $300M Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) will begin studying neutrinos in 2025 to uncover cosmic ...

Simon Holland, a NASA-affiliated filmmaker, has claimed that Earth-based telescopes may have detected signs of intelligent extraterrestrial life.

We apply these models to a range of problems, including faulting, mantle convection, and melting and melt migration in the Earth’s mantle, as well as to societally-relevant issues, such as the dynamic ...

Experts suggest that decratonisation may result from subduction, where one denser mantle layer is forced under another, and ...

over the course of long-term mantle convection, formed two prominent LLVP regions which have remained stable throughout 4.5 billion years of geological evolution. Differences in the deep mantle ...

Heat energy is conducted from the hot end of an object to the cold end. The atoms are fixed in place but are free to vibrate. When part of a solid absorbs heat energy the atoms vibrate faster and ...

My research focuses on the understanding of the present-day physical and chemical structure of the Earth's mantle and crust as well as its physical and chemical evolution over geologic time. Within ...