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Mantle Dynamics

Volcanic Islands Convection Cycles Convective Motion Superplumes Mantle Plumes Mantle Waves Continental Rifting Large Low-Shear-Velocity Provinces (LLSVPs)

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2mo ago

New Model Traces Earth’s Deep-Mantle 'Blobs' to Early Core Leakage

The Nature Geoscience study resolves a magma‑ocean mismatch by showing core‑derived MgO–SiO2 would create a bridgmanite‑seifertite–rich basal layer with low ferropericlase.

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3mo ago

Study Confirms Earth's Core Leaks Gold and Precious Metals Into Mantle

Mantle Dynamics

New Model Traces Earth’s Deep-Mantle 'Blobs' to Early Core Leakage

Mantle Waves Peel Continental Roots to Feed Ocean Volcanoes, Study Finds

Ancient Mantle Anomaly Beneath Appalachians Linked to Greenland Rift

Scientists Confirm Rhythmic Mantle Pulses Driving Africa’s Rift

Study Confirms Earth's Core Leaks Gold and Precious Metals Into Mantle