To find out, the team used whole-Earth oscillation data from 104 past earthquakes to create a detailed 3D model of the upper ...

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds.

Over 25 years ago, researchers discovered that some of these deep Earth reverberations pointed to the existence of two ...

Deeply hidden in Earth’s mantle there are two huge ‘islands’ with the size of a continent. New research from Utrecht ...

These ancient buried "super-continents"—known to scientists as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs)—were found ...

Seismic waves from one of those earthquakes ... The presence of hydrous silicates could also tell seismologists something about the speed of slab subduction in the region. The hydrous magnesium ...

The study of seismic waves provides evidence for the internal structure of the Earth, which cannot be observed directly. P waves are detected on the opposite side of the Earth. Refractions between ...

Scientists have discovered hidden treasures in the Earth's mantle. Hidden deep within Earth's mantle are two colossal ...

The heavier one sinks into the mantle. Traditionally, positive seismic wave speed anomalies in the mantle were attributed to “cold slabs” — remnants of subducted tectonic plates. Essentially ...

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

Scientists from Utrecht University have discovered two enormous structures deep in Earth's mantle, suggesting that these ...