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Variation in geochemical and geophysical properties around the Afar Triangle. Image credit: Watts et al., doi: 10.1038/s41561-025-01717-0.

Geoscientists Find Pulsing Mantle Plume beneath Ethiopia’s Afar Region

Jun 30, 2025 by News Staff

These pulses are gradually tearing the African continent apart and forming a new ocean basin, according to a study led by University of Southampton researchers. Variation...

An artist’s impression of an active mantle plume -- a large blob of warm and buoyant rock -- rising from deep inside Mars and pushing up Elysium Planitia, a plain within the planet’s northern lowlands. Image credit: Adrien Broquet & Audrey Lasbordes.

Planetary Scientists Find Evidence for Active Mantle Plume on Mars

Dec 6, 2022 by News Staff

Elysium Planitia, a flat-smooth plain just north of the Martian equator, is underlain by an 4,000-km-diameter active mantle plume, according to new research...