A recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment has unveiled an extraordinary discovery: the solid rock deep ...

Why should one half of our world be losing its internal heat like a runny kettle, and the other retain it like a snug thermos ...

The D'' layer of the mantle flows in a solid state due to post-perovskite alignment, which accelerates seismic waves by 7%.

Strong new evidence suggests that primordial material from the planet’s center is somehow making its way out. Continent-size ...

A mysterious blob of heat is slowly rising beneath New England, and it may rewrite what we thought we knew about the Appalachian Mountains.

A bold new theory reimagines the NAA as a "Rayleigh–Taylor instability"—a geological term for when heavy, cold rock begins to ...

Mantle plumes are a portion of abnormally hot mantle (around 1,450°C) or unusual composition of the mantle (or both) below Earth's surface.

New research suggests that mysterious "BLOBS" under the Earth could actually be driving volcanic activity.

This plume melts the Earth’s mantle and forms magma, which over long periods results in the formation of an island chain or breaks up continents.

By simulating the movement of two continent-sized Big Lower-Mantle Basal Structures, or BLOBs, researchers may have uncovered the magmatic engine behind Earth’s most devastating eruptions.

BLOBS, which are some 2,000km below Earth’s surface, move hundreds of kilometres over time, and are connected to Earth’s surface by mantle plumes that create giant eruptions.

Finally, volcanoes can also be located in the middle of plates associated with mantle plumes, which are concentrated regions where magma rises from the deep mantle to shallow depths.