The source for the isotopically-enriched Hawaiian magmas contains peridotites that experienced near-surface melting prior ...

Like straight out of Julio Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth, scientists from Northwestern University and the ...

Some of this volcanism occurs when water-rich mantle upwellings trigger the melting of mantle rocks, forming magma that can erupt. Helene Wang and colleagues used plate reconstructions from the past ...

If you were to slice through it, you would see the Earth is divided into distinct layers. On top is the relatively thin crust where we live. Beneath that is the 2,900 km thick mantle layer.