These ancient buried "super-continents"—known to scientists as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs)—were found ...

"The occurrence of ringwoodite together with the hydrous phases indicate a wet environment at this boundary," a team of ...

A re-examination of the 2015 Bonin Islands earthquake disproved earlier claims of a record-breaking deep aftershock in the ...

Deeply hidden in Earth's mantle there are two huge "islands" the size of a continent. New research from Utrecht University ...

The magnitude 7.9 Bonin Islands earthquake sequence in May 2015, which ruptured deep within the earth near the base of the ...

Phase D, an elastically anisotropic hydrous mineral, is stable around cold ... on phase D aggregates under conditions of the ...

Their new analysis detected no foreshocks but identified 14 aftershocks in the upper mantle within a 150 ... olivine can delay its transition into other mineral states under high temperature ...

Brazil and their silicate mineral inclusions crystallised from just such a carbonatitic melt, suggesting that small-degree melts of subducted crust are efficient agents of chemical mass-transfer in ...

Their new analysis detected no foreshocks but identified 14 aftershocks in the upper mantle within a 150 ... olivine can delay its transition into other mineral states under high temperature ...

Every now and then, the Earth disgorges clues to their nature: tiny chthonic diamonds encasing skerricks of rare mineral ... between the upper and lower mantle called the 660-kilometer discontinuity ...