a mantle plume which is rising up under Tharsis Montes. "[The findings] suggest that a plume head is currently flowing upward towards the lithosphere to generate active volcanism in the geological ...

What roils beneath Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean ...

But “stable” doesn’t mean it's unchanging. Cratons undergo changes due to the recurring influence of mantle plumes. Mantle plumes are convectional upwellings of hot material from the deep ...

Instead, they appear in the middle of ocean plates, fueled by columns of rising hot rock called mantle plumes. Mantle plumes can stay fixed in place for millions of years while tectonic plates ...

A plume of hot rocks that burst forth from the Earth's mantle millions of years ago helped forge a land bridge that connected Asia and Africa for the first time, allowing land animals such as the ...

In fact, scientists believe that a plume of hot rocks that burst from the Earth’s mantle millions of years ago could be an important part in the story of human evolution.

A plume of hot rocks that burst forth from the Earth's mantle millions of years ago helped forge a land bridge that connected Asia and Africa for the first time, allowing land animals such as the ...

In fact, scientists believe that a plume of hot rocks that burst from the Earth's mantle millions of years ago could be an important part in the story of human evolution. What roils beneath the ...