Collision, mantle convection and Tethyan closure in the Eastern Mediterranean. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2025; 6 (4): 299 DOI: 10.1038/s43017-025-00653-2 ...

Mantle plumes are mysterious upwellings of molten rock believed to transmit heat from the core-mantle boundary to the Earth’s surface, far from the edges of tectonic plates.

A recent studypublished in Naturepresents compelling evidence of ancient planetary material buried deep within Earth’s mantle. Researchers have uncovered two massive dense structures beneath ...

BLOBS are hot regions at the bottom of Earth’s mantle (between about 2,000km and 3,000km in depth) which might be composed of different material compared with the surrounding mantle rocks.