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'Impossible' mantle earthquakes actually occur all over the world, study finds

Researchers were once unsure whether mantle earthquakes existed. Now they have a global map of this mysterious phenomenon.
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Scientists discover 'sunken worlds' under the Pacific ocean in Earth's mantle

Scientists discovered plate anomalies in Earth's mantle using seismic wave analysis. These mysterious structures challenge ...
El Adelantado de Segovia

Goodbye to the stable image of the planet’s interior—a seismic model reveals something beneath the Pacific Ocean that geophysicists did not expect to find

Deep under the Pacific Ocean, between 900 and 1,200 km deep, scientists have discovered something that doesn’t fit with what textbooks say about our planet.
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Scientists Drilled So Deep Into the Center of the Earth, They Knocked on the Mantle’s Door

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." To understand the mantle—the largest layer of Earth’s rocky body—scientists drill deep cores out of the ...

Earth's mantle may have been cooler than thought before Pangea's breakup

When the supercontinent Pangea began to fragment around 200 million years ago during the Early Jurassic, it reshaped the face of the planet. Vast new oceans opened, continents drifted apart and the ...