What goes down, must come up: Stirring things up in the Earth's mantle
Friday, May 12, 2017 - 10:12
in Earth & Climate
New insights into the convection patterns of the Earth's mantle and its chemical makeup have been revealed. The new findings suggest that the mantle does not flow ubiquitously, as has been previously thought - and that it is instead divided into two very large domains that convect only within themselves, with little evidence of them mixing together.