Learn more about BLOBS, mantel plumes 1,500 miles into Earth's mantel that contribute to massive volcanic eruptions on the ...

Scientists in Australia have identified a possible cause of gigantic volcanic eruptions - mysterious 'blobs' about 1,200 ...

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

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

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

Giant, large-scale eruptions can have more serious impacts. One such event contributed to the demise of the dinosaurs 66 ...

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

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

The lower mantle, denser and hotter, remains poorly understood due to its inaccessibility. The study of the Earth's mantle relies on indirect methods, such as the analysis of seismic waves.

Research reveals historical eruptions are linked to moving underground structures called BLOBS, 2500km below the earth's ...