Scientists Say Earth's Mantle Is Split Into Two Halves. Here's Why
Scientists say that the mantle is split up into two domains- the African and the Pacific that emerged when the supercontinent ...
New Study Shows ‘Anomalous Rocks’ Deep Inside Earth
A new high-resolution computer model shows rocks that are colder, or have a different composition, in Earth's mantle where ...
Megathrust earthquakes: Modeling the long and short of subduction zones
Plates at subduction zones typically move just a few centimeters per year. But when accumulated stress at these convergent ...
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Possible Sunken Worlds Revealed by High Resolution Models of Earth
Long-lost remnants of tectonic plates have been discovered sunken deep inside the Earth's ... which one tectonic plate is forced beneath another as they converge at a plate boundary—anywhere ...
Sunken worlds under the Pacific? High-res models reveal workings of Earth's mantle
Geophysicists at ETH Zurich are using models of the lower mantle to identify areas where earthquake waves behave differently ...
Swiss Scientists Discover Unusual Zones In Earth's Mantle
Using high-resolution models to study the Earth's mantle, scientists have identified zones of rocks in the lower mantle layer ...