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Towering structures in Earth’s depths may be billions of years old
New measurements suggest mysterious continent-sized masses in our planet’s lower mantle may be extremely stable features ...
Two Mountains 100 Times Taller Than Mount Everest Discovered Deep Beneath Earth
Earth's biggest mountains, more than 100 times taller than Mount Everest, have been discovered on the boundary between Africa ...
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Continent-size blobs in Earth's mantle are a billion years old, ancient crystals reveal
Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds.
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Strange seismic wave arrivals lead to discovery of overturned slab in the Mediterranean
Seismic waves from one of those earthquakes ... and Morocco as part of the Program to Investigate Convective Alboran Sea System Overturn (PICASSO) project. The researchers noted that the ...
Colossal Mountains 100 Times Taller Than Everest Discovered Hidden Under Earth
These mountains, known as "Large Low Seismic Velocity Provinces" or LLSVPs, sit on the boundary between Earth's core and ...
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Fancy a new climbing challenge? Hidden mountains, more than 100 times larger than Everest ...
Two hidden mountains, more than 100 times larger than Mount Everest have been discovered deep underground. The two ‘islands ...
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Strange Seismic Signals Lead to Discovery of Upside-Down Ocean Crust
An upside-down piece of hidden ocean crust has been revealed by mysterious seismic signals. The seismic waves, which came from an underground 2010 magnitude 6.3 earthquake in Spain, led scientists ...
Mysterious 'Supercontinents' Inside Earth Challenge Mantle Theory
These ancient buried "super-continents"—known to scientists as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs)—were found ...
Sunken worlds under the Pacific? Scientists are BAFFLED by massive structures found deep ...
a new study reveals evidence for 'a lost world' beneath the Pacific Ocean. Scientists at ETH Zurich and the California ...
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Strange Blobs Found Deep Inside Earth Where No Such Blobs Should Exist
These fragments of our surface do have a tendency to sink into Earth's mantle when they lose out in the plate-on-plate ...
Subterranean ‘islands’: strongholds in a potentially less turbulent world
Deeply hidden in Earth’s mantle there are two huge ‘islands’ with the size of a continent. New research from Utrecht ...