A sublime landscape: New model explains Pluto’s lumpy plains The convection thought to drive the area's geology may come from cooling, not heat. John Timmer – Dec 17, 2021 5:21 AM | 36 ...

Convection, a well-known process in geology, occurs when heated material rises toward a planet’s surface and cooler materials sink, creating a constant conveyor belt of sorts.

News Release 18-Sep-2014 Miranda: An icy moon deformed by convection New Geology articles posted online ahead of print 16 Sept. 2014 Peer-Reviewed Publication Geological Society of America ...

Small scale convection at the base of the Pacific plate has been simulated in a model of mantle plume dynamics, enabling reasearchers to explain the complex set of observations at the Hawaiian ...

Whole-mantle convection with tectonic plates preserves long-term global patterns of upper mantle geochemistry. Scientific Reports, 2017; 7 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-01816-y ...