The new model of the Earth's mantle and crust from Sandia National Laboratories and Los Alamos National Laboratory is called Sandia-Los Alamos 3D, or SALSA3D.

The model shows mantle plumes (where the hot rock flows) starting at the bottom of the core-to-mantle boundary and climbing to the top, where they connect to volcanic hotspots in the Earth's crust.

Some areas of continental crust have maintained long-term stability from the beginning of Earth's history, ... (a technique that uses seismic waves to generate 3D models of Earth's interior). ...

Feng explains that these models incorporate information from seismic waves, gravity measurements, magnetic fields, and other geophysical observations to create detailed 3D representations of the ...

Through her computer model, she determined the isotopic composition of the deep-mantle reservoir from Earth’s formation to the present day. Then, Ferrick modeled a magma plume, which is when a hot ...

Learning with TOI News: The Earth's crust is divided into tectonic plates that move due to forces within the planet. There are three types of plate interactions: divergent bo ...

A study published in Nature on 2 April reveals that Earth's first crust, formed about 4.5 billion years ago, probably had chemical features remarkably like today’s continental crust.

Some areas of continental crust have maintained long-term stability from the beginning of Earth's history, ... (a technique that uses seismic waves to generate 3D models of Earth's interior). ...