Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it cracks and an ocean basin begins.

Scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery that challenges our understanding of Earth’s structure: an ocean located deep ...

The chemical striping suggests the plume is pulsing, like a heartbeat.” That is how Professor Tom Gernon of the University of ...

For over half a billion years, Earth’s magnetic field has risen and fallen in sync with oxygen levels in the atmosphere, and ...

A group of researchers from across the world has found that a steady, rhythmic pulse deep beneath Ethiopia’s Afar region, ...

The Afar junction is the point at which the Arabian, Nubian, and Somalian plates meet, each departing in their own directions to leave a widening gap under the Afar Triangle. Eventually, the crust ...

Every breath we take in contains 21% oxygen, the gas that makes life on Earth possible. Oxygen, in its combined oxide state, ...

“We find that both exhibit strong linearly increasing trends, coupled with a large surge in magnitude between 330 and 220 ...

Sun's Suprising Effect on Earth's Deep Interior Revealed. Published Jul 24, 2024 at 1:12 PM EDT Updated Jul 25, 2024 at 1:24 PM EDT. By . Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in ...

Most geologists. however, assume that the earth's interior is hot and ascribe the great variation in the observed temperatures and gradients to differences in the thermal conductivity of the rocks ...

The extreme temperatures of the Earth's interior -- around 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit (5,537 Celsius) at the core -- and the accompanying crushing pressure, which is millions of times more than at ...