Extinct volcanoes that lurk around Rapa Nui, aka Easter Island, may challenge some parts of the standard explanation about ...

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

A vast, ancient slab of seafloor plunged beneath the Pacific Ocean and has hovered in Earth’s mantle for more than 120 ...

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'.

Mantle plumes are columns of unusually hot rock which rise to the Earth's surface from the boundary between the core and mantle, 2,900 km below ground. They fuel volcanic activity wherever they ...

Scientists have known since the 1960s that mantle plumes stay in place for a very long time while the Earth's plates move over them. Every time the plate shifts a bit, the mantle plume produces a ...

A mysterious find on Easter Island, investigated by a team of geologists, suggests that the Earth's mantle seems to behave differently than once thought. Geography textbooks describe the Earth's ...

Mantle Minerals (MTL, formerly Caeneus Minerals) is an Australian-based mineral exploration and development company, established for the purpose of acquiring a portfolio of highly prospective ...

Mantle Ridge has been building its position in Air Products since March, the people said.

Air Products (NYSE:APD) rose 2.7% in after hours trading after a report that activist investor Mantle Ridge has accumulated a more than $1 billion stake in the industrial gas maker. Mantle Ridge ...