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Giant "Island" Structures Around The Earth's Core Are Older – And Stranger – Than We Thought
Nobody knew what they are, and whether they are only a temporary phenomenon, or if they have been sitting there for millions ...
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Scientists Find Hidden Mountains 100 Times Taller Than Mount Everest — But There's One Problem
A new study discovers ancient subterranean islands several meters taller than Mount Everest that are hotter than their ...
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Lunar rocks help scientists pinpoint when the moon crystallized
If the scientists could very precisely measure the proportions of lutetium and halfnium in moon rocks compared to other ...
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 ...
The Earth could get a new ocean and continent a lot sooner than we thought
This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly broke apart and spread out to form the continents we know today. These continents aren’t going to stay in place forever, however. A ...
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 ...
Buried Continents: Ancient Mega-Islands Discovered Deep Beneath Earth’s Surface
Scientists have discovered hidden treasures in the Earth's mantle. Hidden deep within Earth's mantle are two colossal ...
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‘Impossible’ earthquake challenges everything we knew about Earth’s interior
Scientists have solved the mystery of how earthquakes can occur 420 miles deep inside Earth, where extreme pressure and heat ...
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Continent-sized "islands" found inside Earth are 100 times taller than Mount Everest
Deep within Earth’s mantle lie two enormous regions, often referred to as "islands," which are the size of continents.
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Scientists Listening to Signals From Huge, Mysterious Objects Inside the Earth
The mystery of two "super-continent"-sized structures buried deep in the Earth's mantle has produced a new twist after scientists got a closer look at their composition, suggesting they might be even ...
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Mysterious 'Supercontinents' Inside Earth Challenge Mantle Theory
Two enormous continent-sized "islands" found buried deep inside the Earth's mantle are challenging our ideas about our planet's inner workings. These unexpected regions of the Earth's innards ...
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Scientists Discover ‘Sunken Worlds’ Hidden Deep Within Earth’s Mantle
Composition of Earth’s mantle revisited due to research at Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source. Credit: Argonne National Laboratory / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Scientists have identified mysterious formations deep ...