Motions in the Earth's molten iron core generate convection currents--similar to boiling water--which produce the field. Many sources of heat drive these currents, but the known sources seem ...

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

A new study projects that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)—the system of currents that includes the Gulf Stream—could shut down after 2100 under high-emission scenarios. This ...

Many geophysicists believe that this cyclical pattern could be related to regular disruptions in the convection currents in the Earth’s mantle, upon which the continents float. However, scientists ...

The wind regime, which is strongly influenced by local convectional rather than continental forces, assists convection currents in the water in effecting a nocturnal turbulence which provides an ...

It's broken into large chunks, and the convection currents of molten rock below exert pressure on these chunks, causing them to push up against, slide by and separate from one another.