A section of the upper mantle and crust under the Sierra Nevada mountains is peeling away, in a process that may mimic how ...

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

Like a moth in a cocoon, the metamorphosis of Earth's crust from molten goop to solid land is hidden from view, leaving ...

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These ancient buried "super-continents"—known to scientists as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs)—were found ...

We are unsure of the nature of the strange doughnut-shaped structure discovered inside the Earth's core. We thought Earth had ...

A new way of measuring structures deep inside Earth has highlighted numerous previously unknown blobs within our planet's mantle. These anomalies are surprisingly similar to sunken chunks of Earth's ...

Researchers from Utrecht University have found in a study that there are two colossal peaks that reach heights of around 620 ...

Researchers at the University of Göttingen discovered that the Neotethys oceanic plate beneath the Arabian and Eurasian ...

Scientists have found potential remnants of Earth’s ancient crust deep within the mantle using new seismic mapping techniques ...

Here’s how it works. Potential patches of Earth's ancient crust, sometimes called "sunken worlds," may have just been discovered deep within the mantle, thanks to a new way of mapping the inside ...