MYSTERIOUS ‘BLOBS’ lurking beneath the Earth’s surface could be responsible for the cataclysmic volcanic eruptions that ...

New research traces the origins of Earth’s most powerful volcanic eruptions to mysterious continent-sized structures deep ...

Volcanic eruptions can destroy essential infrastructure, ground air traffic for days, wipe out entire cities, disrupt the ...

New research is reshaping how scientists understand the earliest days of Earth’s formation—suggesting that the deep interior ...

They reveal that the chemical composition of the deep mantle has remained almost intact since the Earth's formation 4.5 ...

A ‘ghost plume’ identified deep in the mantle beneath Oman suggests there may be more heat flowing out of Earth’s core than previously thought ...

Colossal volcanic eruptions like the kind that may have obliterated the dinosaurs more than 65 million years ago are caused ...

The lower mantle lies below that zone. Most of Earth's lower mantle is made of a magnesium silicate mineral called perovskite.

These formations, nicknamed "BLOBS," stretch across the mantle layer around 3,000 kilometres beneath the surface.

Mantle plumes were the implicit link in previous studies relating BLOBS to giant volcanic eruptions. Their shape is a bit ...

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

Scientists created a simulation showing that early Earth still retained chemical traces of its igneous youth, 4.5 billion years ago.