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Earth's mantle

A model shows yellow mantle plumes rising from big, red lower-mantle basal structures.
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Blame It on the BLOBs

by Bill Morris 15 August 202514 August 2025

For decades, scientists have suspected that large volcanic eruptions have their origins in two mysterious massive regions at the base of our planet’s mantle. Now, it’s been statistically proven.

An orange, soccer ball–sized sphere with electronic equipment attached to it floats in the ocean.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Finding the Gap: Seismology Offers Slab Window Insights

Sarah Stanley, Science Writer by Sarah Stanley 15 August 202514 August 2025

Studying slow tremors has helped researchers home in on the youngest part of the Chile Triple Junction’s gap between subducting plates, which offers a window to the mantle.

Map from the study.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

300 Million Years of Polar Wander: Slowly but Surely

by Thorsten W. Becker 16 April 202516 April 2025

A reanalysis of paleomagnetic poles provides tighter bounds on the style and rate of motions of our whole planet with respect to its rotation axis.

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Posted inScience Updates

The Deep Frontier of Mantle Magma Supply

by Ben Black, Samer Naif, Forrest Horton, Andrea Goltz and Cian Wilson 25 March 202525 March 2025

Compared with crustal magma systems, little is known about the deep sources of volcanic supply chains. Interdisciplinary efforts can help answer key questions about how magma migrates from the mantle.

Diagram of the model presented in the paper.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Hawai’i’s Depleted Peridotite Delivers More Magma

by Vincent Salters 24 March 202524 March 2025

The source for the isotopically-enriched Hawaiian magmas contains peridotites that experienced near-surface melting prior incorporation in the plume.

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Posted inResearch Spotlights

Water Stored in the Mantle for Millions of Years May Be Linked to Continental Volcanism

by Rebecca Owen 19 March 202519 March 2025

New research shows that intraplate volcanism is more likely to occur over areas of the mantle that are more hydrated—particularly those that have been hydrated for a long, long time.

Diagram of various mantle plume behaviors.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Modeling Mantle Dynamics as the Earth Slowly Cools

by Paul Asimow 19 February 202511 February 2025

An update of the convection code ASPECT enables full coupling of plume dynamics with buoyancy effects of transition zone phase relations, showing how early layering gave way to whole-mantle plumes.

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Deep Beneath California’s Sierra Nevada, Earth’s Lithosphere May Be Peeling Away

by Nathaniel Scharping 17 January 202530 April 2025

Evidence for lithospheric foundering, or the process of denser material sinking into the mantle, is emerging.

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Beneath Greenland, Insights for Energy Transitions and Climate Models

by Juan C. Afonso, Agnes Wansing, Parviz Ajourlou, John Hopper and Jörg Ebbing 15 January 202515 January 2025

Emerging consensus on the structure and dynamics of Greenland’s lithosphere may help improve forecasts of climate and sea level change and develop solutions for sustainable resource use.

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Magmatic Fluids and Melts May Lie Beneath Dormant German Volcanoes

Sarah Stanley, Science Writer by Sarah Stanley 2 January 202513 January 2025

New processing strategies applied to old seismic data reveal potential pockets of magmatic fluids or melts from the upper mantle.

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