Science news articles about 'mantle dynamics'

... influence how heat is transferred within Earth's mantle, how columns of hot rock called superplumes ... Lin said modelers who make computer simulations of mantle dynamics will now have to go back and try ...

... , issue of Nature, call into question current models of mantle dynamics. Lead author of the study Alexander Goncharov explains: "The lower mantle sits on top of the core where pressures range ...