Research led by Earth scientists at the University of Southampton has uncovered evidence of rhythmic surges of molten mantle rock rising from deep within the Earth beneath Africa. These pulses are ...

Because trekking to the core-mantle boundary (CMB) where the D” layer lies is obviously not an option, he led a team of researchers from Switzerland and Japan in running lab tests and computer ...

Scientists have detected deep pulses in the Earth beneath Africa – and it could tear the continent apart. The pulses are made up of molten mantle rock surging in rhythm, the researchers say. The ...

A giant pulse beneath Africa could split the continent — and form an ocean Discovery reveals pulsing mantle plume beneath Ethiopia, where a new ocean is forming. Date: June 27, 2025 Source ...

Continents aren’t torn apart without warning, and oceans certainly aren’t created out of the blue. Instead, these changes are announced millions of years before they’re actually achieved, by the ...

To understand the mantle—the largest layer of Earth’s rocky body—scientists drill deep cores out of the Earth. Scientists drilled the deepest core yet and recovered serpentinized peridotite ...

Scientists have detected rhythmic pulses of molten rock rising beneath eastern Africa, threatening to pull the continent apart.

"On A Timescale Of Millions Of Years": Scientists Detect Pulsing “Heartbeat” Under Africa Every beat leaves a different chemical signal in the rocks around the Ethiopian Rift for us to find.