A new way of measuring structures deep inside Earth has highlighted numerous previously unknown blobs within our planet's ...
Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...
Scientists discovered plate anomalies in Earth's mantle using seismic wave analysis. These mysterious structures challenge ...
No one can see inside the Earth. Nor can anyone drill deep enough to take rock samples from the mantle, the layer between the ...
Unexpected mantle structures hint at ancient or unknown materials, challenging current tectonic theories and prompting deeper ...
The plates make up Earth's outer shell, called the lithosphere. (This includes the crust and uppermost part of the mantle.) Churning currents in the molten rocks below propel them along like a ...
The Earth is made up of different layers ... Slab pull occurs where older, denser tectonic plates sink into the mantle at subduction zones. As these older sections of plates sink, newer and ...