Ten years ago, Samer Naif made an unexpected discovery in Earth’s mantle: a narrow pocket, proposed to be filled with magma, hidden some 60 kilometers beneath the seafloor of the Cocos Plate. Mantle ...
Far out in the Atlantic, Bermuda rises from the ocean as if it is defying the rules of geology. Its volcanoes went silent ...
The mantle transition zone (MTZ), which occurs 410–670 kilometers below Earth's surface, may store several oceans' worth of ...
The characteristics of volcanoes scattered across the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia, including Baekdu Mountain, Halla Mountain, and Ulleungdo Island, have long been a puzzle in the geology commu ...