Scientists have discovered an unusually thick mantle transition zone beneath the Lesser Antilles. This discovery sheds new light on how oceanic plates sink into the Earth's mantle. Variations in ...

Volatiles are crucial for sustaining life and Earth's habitability, with subduction zones being the main pathways for these ...

Is the Earth's transition zone deforming like the upper mantle? Ehime University Journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters Funder European Research Council (ERC) under the Seventh Framework ...

These high-velocity features stretched from the bottom of the continental lithosphere down to the mantle transition zone. “These blobs have a drip-like shape,” Hua explained. “They show up ...

Water plays an important role in the Earth's evolution and dynamics, and it can be stored and delivered into the Earth's interior by subducting slabs ...

What they saw were large, drip-like structures extending from the base of the craton into the mantle transition zone, an area roughly 400 to 700 kilometres below Earth's surface.

I am particularly interested in the role of melts at structural, rheological, and/or chemical boundaries in the Earth, such as the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary, the transition zone (410-660 km), ...