convection

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Thermal convection is typically associated with the extremely hot material moving inside Earth's mantle, not with ice.

From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2026

Others could be linked to heat driven convection within the mantle as it recycles subducted slabs of Earth's crust.

From Science Daily • Feb. 20, 2026

According to this idea, the planet was capped by a stiff, unmoving outer shell while heat-driven convection took place deeper in the mantle.

From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2025

Plasma convection -- the large-scale flow of charged particles within the magnetosphere -- drives many dynamic space phenomena.

From Science Daily • Oct. 31, 2025

Holmes was the first scientist to understand that radioactive warming could produce convection currents within the Earth.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson