mantle flow

Whole solid-Earth numerical simulation: Towards an understanding of mantle-core interactive dynamics

Masaki Yoshida and edited by Jyotirmoy Paul May 5, 2021

Due to huge difference between the time scale of the mantle convection and the outer core convection, they are modelled separately. In this week’s News and Views, Masaki Yoshida from the Volcanoes and Earth’s Interior Research Center, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Japan, put forward the recent development on the modeling of the whole solid-Earth. The E ...[Read More]

Modelling the deformation in the Indian plate and the India-Eurasia collision zone

Srishti Singh and edited by Jyotirmoy Paul March 24, 2021

Mighty Himalayas at the India-Eurasia collision zone, Kashmir. photo @GeophyJo

A complete fluid dynamical approach of modeling the Earth’s deformation can not provide a complete picture due to presence of rigid lithospheric plates. In this week’s news and views, Srishti Singh, scientist at National Geophysical Research Institute, India, explains how coupled models of lithosphere dynamics and mantle convection are developed. The ongoing collision of the Indian plate wi ...[Read More]

The Indian Ocean Geoid Low at a plume-slab overpass

Elodie Kendall and edited by Anne Glerum February 24, 2021

Potsdam gravity potato (image: GFZ, 2011)

In this week’s News & Views, Postdoc Elodie Kendall from GFZ Potsdam shares with us recent work on the mantle structures that could explain the Indian Ocean Geoid Low. What is the geoid, what does it look like and what can it tell us about mantle structure? The geoid is a model of the shape of the oceans’ surface if only gravity and Earth’s rotation act ...[Read More]

Remarkable Regions – The Réunion Hotspot

Editorial team 1 August 7, 2019

Image Credit: modified by Anne Glerum after NASA Earth Observatory/Joshua Stevens.

This week we again turn our attention to a Remarkable Region that deserves a spot in the scientific limelight. Postdoctoral researcher Eva Bredow of Kiel University shares with us her long history with Réunion Island. At first glance, Réunion is a relatively small tropical island, located between Madagascar and Mauritius, and from my personal experience, most Germans have never even heard of it. T ...[Read More]