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Continent-size blobs in Earth's mantle are a billion years old, ancient crystals reveal
New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead ...
Lab experiments add to evidence that Earth's mantle is more complex than thought
A team of geologists and mineral physicists at Harvard University, the University of California, Argonne National Laboratory ...
Two buried ‘supercontinents’ hiding inside Earth could be much older than previously thought
Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...
ScienceAlert19d
Colossal 'Anomalies' in Earth's Mantle Aren't What We Thought
To find out, the team used whole-Earth oscillation data from 104 past earthquakes to create a detailed 3D model of the upper ...
Eos3d
Modeling Mantle Dynamics as the Earth Slowly Cools
An update of the convection code ASPECT enables full coupling of plume dynamics with buoyancy effects of transition zone ...
The Ground Beneath Sweden Is Rising – Scientists Uncover Gravity Shift
Scientists at Sweden’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology have refined a method to measure post-glacial rebound in ...
The Earth’s Core Is Not as Solid As We Thought, Yet Another Study Speculates
A new study of decades worth of seismogram data shows that the surface of Earth’s iron and nickel core is more malleable than ...
Massive Continent-Sized Blobs Deep in Earth’s Mantle May Be Over a Billion Years Old
Deep-seated mantle structures known as LLSVPs have been found to be over a billion years old, affecting tectonic activity.
The Economist2d
Another win for geology’s Theory of Everything
Geology’s Theory of Everything continues successfully to defend its title. ■ Curious about the world? To enjoy our ...
Science Daily1mon
Claims for the world's deepest earthquake challenged by new analysis
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 ...
Live Science21d
Earth's crust is peeling away under California
A new study now finds that this process is happening right now under the Sierra Nevada. Under the southern section of the mountain range, the lithosphere —the upper part of Earth's mantle and ...