The plateau effectively capped the plume for 30 million years, suppressing mantle melting, halting the creation of new volcanic structures, and resulting in the 30-million-year gap in the Samoan ...
One of the most puzzling phenomena lies beneath the Indian Ocean, south of Sri Lanka, where a massive gravity anomaly known as the Indian Ocean Geoid Low (IOGL) has confounded researchers for decades, ...
Abstract: Ray & Egbert use Earth rotation observations and ocean tide models to infer the extent of mantle anelasticity at a fortnightly period. However, their preferred fortnightly tide model, which ...
the nation’s first domestically designed and built deep-ocean drilling vessel, on Sunday. The event, held in the southern metropolis of Guangzhou, represents a major step forward in exploring the ...
In a historic milestone for marine and geological sciences, China officially commissioned the Meng Xiang, the nation’s first domestically designed and built deep-ocean drilling vessel, on Sunday. The ...