Geography textbooks describe the Earth's mantle beneath its plates as a well-mixed viscous rock that moves along with those ...

An unexpected find in tiny crystals hints that the Earth's mantle may not quite behave as has been believed for nearly a century.

A mysterious find on Easter Island, investigated by a team of geologists, suggests that the Earth's mantle seems to behave differently than once thought.

Traditionally, textbooks have described the mantle as a viscous, well-mixed layer that shifts along with tectonic plates, ...

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Geography textbooks describe the Earth's mantle beneath its plates as a well-mixed viscous rock that moves along with those plates like a conveyor belt. But that idea, first set out some 100 years ...