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Mantle Dynamics

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

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8mo 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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9mo 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