Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

To find out, the team used whole-Earth oscillation data from 104 past earthquakes to create a detailed 3D model of the upper ...

The magnitude 7.9 Bonin Islands earthquake sequence, which ruptured deep within the earth near the base of the upper mantle, did not include an aftershock that extended to record depths into the ...

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These movements are fueled by heat from the Earth's core. The mantle is divided into two parts: the upper mantle and the lower mantle. The upper mantle, closer to the surface, is the site of the ...

In a recent paper published in National Science Review, a jointed team of scholars from China and UK has made significant ...

But now, a team led by Rodney Ruoff at the Institute for Basic Science in Ulsan, South Korea, has shattered this paradigm, ...

Over 25 years ago, researchers discovered that some of these deep Earth reverberations pointed to the existence of two underground “super-continents” hundreds of miles beneath Africa and the Pacific ...

Earth's biggest mountains ... where the tones sounded very soft." This was unlike the upper mantle, which was expectedly "hot" with damped waves, researchers said. Ms Sujania analogized the ...

A new ocean is forming in East Africa due to tectonic shifts, potentially reshaping the continent and altering global geography over millions of years.

Roughly 250 million years ago, traveling from present-day Australia to North America would have been surprisingly simple-a ...

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