The mantle, a zone between our planet’s thin crust and the molten core, features 1,800 miles (2,900 kilometers) of mostly solid rock, with a consistency like thickened caramel that scientists ...

Recent research, using cutting-edge Full-Waveform Inversion (FWI) technology, has revealed that the Earth’s mantle — a massive layer stretching nearly 2,900 kilometers deep — is a chaotic ...

Here’s how it works. Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds. Known as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs), these ...

Both supercontinents formed over what is now the African domain A new study reveals that Earth's mantle is divided by the Pacific Ring of Fire, a geological scar reflecting the formation and ...

For example, they may be made of crust-like material left over from the mantle's creation 4 billion ... researchers used a new method, known as full-waveform inversion, which uses computer models ...

Long-lost remnants of tectonic plates have been discovered sunken deep inside the Earth's mantle. These plate remains were found lurking underneath the center of other continental plates ...