Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds.

Crystals in the mantle take a long time to grow ... or how tectonic plates are organized at the surface, Deuss told Live Science. But figuring out exactly how these impacts show up in the ...

Geophysicists find areas that resemble the results of tectonic plate collisions — far from any area of such activity.

Using a nearly 200-year record of lava chemistry from Kīlauea and Maunaloa, Earth scientists from the University of Hawai'i ...

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

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Their existence contradicts the common assertion the Earth’s mantle is well-mixed, suggesting our models are wrong.

Using a nearly 200-year record of lava chemistry from Kīlauea and Maunaloa, earth scientists from the University of Hawaiʻi ...

Scientists uncover ancient crust hidden deep within Earth's mantle, revealing a 'sunken world' that challenges our ...

Earth’s mantle behaves like a slow-moving fluid, but that hasn’t stopped two vast regions at its base from maintaining a separation from the rest. These continent-sized areas are hotter than ...

Deeply hidden in Earth's mantle there are two huge "islands" the size of a continent. New research from Utrecht University ...