Something unusual is happening deep within Earth’s mantle,around 1,700 miles below the surface, where seismic waves accelerate in a way that has left scientists scratching their heads for decades.

The huge column of hot rock, known as a mantle plume or a 'ghost plume', which rises from deep inside the earth beneath ...

The chemical striping suggests the plume is pulsing, like a heartbeat.” That is how Professor Tom Gernon of the University of ...

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Research led by Earth scientists at the University of Southampton has uncovered evidence of rhythmic surges of molten mantle ...

Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it cracks and an ocean basin begins.

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The driving force behind this volcanic activity is believed to be the “Iceland Plume”—a deep, hot column of molten rock that ...

An international team of scientists led by researchers from the University of Southampton has found evidence that rhythmic ...