Geologists studying Easter Island recently opened up another mystery centered around the famous region. A team from ...

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

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 ...

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

Tiny minerals are revolutionizing our understanding of textbooks. Easter Island consists of several extinct volcanoes. The ...

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

Some plumes penetrate below 660 km, whereas others are deflected and may produce secondary upper-mantle plumes. An average compositional stratification exists either side of 660 km. Full size image ...

Dame Hilary Mantel (1952-2022) was one of Britain’s most acclaimed novelists. She won the Booker Prize twice for her novels set in Tudor England: Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies. In the 2017 ...