Research reveals continents "peel" from below, feeding enriched material into the oceanic mantle, explaining why ocean ...
Once inside the oceanic mantle, bits of continents become part of the magma factory that powers ocean volcanoes.
Waves in Earth's mantle created by the rifting of continents may peel the planet's crust from below, feeding volcanoes in the middle of the ocean.
An international research team has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the Zagros Mountains in the Kurdistan region of Iraq on how much the surface of the Earth has bent over the last ...