A new way of measuring structures deep inside Earth has highlighted numerous previously unknown blobs within our planet's ...

These fragments of our surface do have a tendency to sink into Earth's mantle when they lose out in the plate-on-plate ...

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

Scientists say that the mantle is split up into two domains- the African and the Pacific that emerged when the supercontinent ...

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A new high-resolution computer model shows rocks that are colder, or have a different composition, in Earth's mantle where ...

Although such a 'plum-pudding' mantle — one consisting of blobs of one composition dispersed in a matrix of another — has been invoked previously, the data assembled over the past few years ...

The new model shows blobs within Earth's mantle where seismic waves travel slower than usual (blue), which suggests they may be subducted slab chunks. (Image credit: Sebastian Noe/ETH Zurich ...

Potential patches of Earth's ancient crust, sometimes called "sunken worlds," may have just been discovered deep within the mantle, thanks to a new way of mapping the inside of our planet. However, ...

In doing so, they found what look very much like the remnants of tectonic plates, huge blobs of rock that are cooler and higher-density than the surrounding lower mantle. These fragments of our ...

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