convection

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A new study proposes that the mysterious plumes are created by thermal convection.

From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2026

Their analysis indicates that these plume-like features are likely created by thermal convection, a slow churning motion inside the ice driven by temperature differences.

From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2026

Mantle convection: The slow, heat-driven movement of material within Earth's mantle that transports energy from the interior toward the surface.

From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2025

This suggests that powerful convection in the star's final years may have dredged up carbon from deep inside, enriching its surface and altering the type of dust it produced.

From Science Daily • Oct. 9, 2025

He became the world’s foremost authority on thermodynamics and the first to elucidate the principles of the convection of fluids and the circulation of ocean currents.

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