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

The current total heat flow at the Earth's surface — 46 ± 3 terawatts (10 12 J s −1) — involves contributions from heat entering the mantle from the core, as well as mantle cooling ...

The findings show the East Pacific Rise, the Earth’s dominant mid-ocean ridge, is dynamic as heat is transferred. David B. Rowley, professor of geophysical sciences at the University of Chicago, and ...

Heat transport in the Earth's mantle and in the atmosphere is probably not as effective as previously thought. Not only in the Earth's mantle, in the atmosphere and in the outer layers of the Sun ...

Heat from Earth's core could be underlying force in plate tectonics Date: January 18, 2017 Source: University of Chicago Summary: For decades, scientists have theorized that the movement of Earth ...

who for decades have dreamed of punching through miles of Earth’s crust to sample the mysterious realm that makes up most of the planet. The heat-driven churn of the mantle is what fuels plate ...

as well as rare-earth elements. Such radioactive elements have long been thought to produce about a third of the heat circulating in the lower mantle (the other two-thirds is left over from the ...

It makes up 55% of Earth by volume and experiences pressure from 237,000 atm to 1.3 million atm towards the outer core. Heat and pressure in the lower mantle are much greater than in the upper mantle.

As they report Wednesday in Nature, new clues suggest that the oxidation change is a sign that Earth’s mantle rocks were melted in extreme heat and then persisted through billions of years.

Here’s how it works. The boundary zone between Earth's molten metal core and the mantle, its rocky middle layer, might be a diamond factory. A new laboratory experiment finds that, under extreme ...

However, new clues suggest that the oxidation change was caused by Earth's mantle rocks being melted in extreme heat and lasting throughout billions of years. The rocks were extracted from two ...