According to current knowledge, therefore, an influence of plate tectonics and mantle convection on the Earth's magnetic field seems quite possible.

The new analysis provides an alternative to the hypothesis that the movement of tectonic plates is related to convection currents in the Earth's mantle. Convection involves buoyant rise of heated ...

The crust of volcanically active Venus could be churning with convection currents just like the Earth's mantle. This is the conclusion of researchers from the Washington University in St. Louis ...

This suggests that the heat flow from the core into the mantle is also higher than previously thought. Greater heat flow, in turn, increases mantle convection and accelerates the cooling of the Earth.

Watch the fascinating processes through which energy travels across the Earth, atmosphere, and even into space. Energy ...

While there may be convection currents in the mantle of a planet or moon below its lithosphere, these currents do not provide enough stress to break or drag the lithosphere along with them in a ...

Numerical models demonstrate that small-scale convection develops in the upper mantle beneath the transition of thick cratonic lithosphere and thin oceanic lithosphere. These models explain the ...

The theory of convection in a medium with internal heat generation is discussed semi-quantitatively. It is concluded that a mantle convection pattern based on calculations of marginal stability in an ...

Hints from seismic tomography and geochemistry indicate that Earth's mantle is heterogeneous at large scale. Numerical simulations of mantle convection show that, if it started enriched in ...

Another way is below the crust where, hot, softened rock rises from the mantle, and convection currents pull it toward the surface.

The only adequate mechanisms for continental drift which have yet been suggested are based on the activity of convection currents in the Earth's mantle.