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 ...
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 ...
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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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Two buried ‘supercontinents’ hiding inside Earth could be much older than previously thought
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Why the 'roof of the world' keeps rising over time
The Tibetan Plateau, often called the "roof of the world," continues to baffle geologists and others curious about Earth’s ...
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Two Mars spacecraft teamed up with AI to find a fresh impact crater on the surface
Mars spacecraft teamed up with an AI model to find a new impact crater on on the Martian surface, changing our understanding of the interior.
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Ocean plate from time of Pangaea is now being torn apart under Iraq and Iran
As Neotethys closed up, the oceanic crust went under the Eurasian continent. The continental portion of the Arabian plate, ...
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'Lost City' Deep Under The Ocean Is Unlike Anything We've Ever Seen Before on Earth
Close to the summit of an underwater mountain west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a jagged landscape of towers rises from the gloom.
Earth's crust is collapsing under a hidden force—scientists reveal the shocking reason
Researchers at the University of Göttingen discovered that the Neotethys oceanic plate beneath the Arabian and Eurasian ...
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Earth's crust is peeling away under California
A section of the upper mantle and crust under the Sierra Nevada mountains is peeling away, in a process that may mimic how ...
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 ...