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The depths of the Earth still hold many surprises. A team of scientists has discovered that objects move horizontally in the Earth's mantle, nearly 1,864 miles (3,000 km) beneath our feet.
By analysing how the Earth's plates moved in the past, the researchers concluded that the Dani plume likely arrived during ...
Scientists believe they've discovered a 'ghost' plume for the first time. Rising from Earth's core beneath Oman, the ...
The wind, having tumbled down 4,000 feet of elevation from the domed summit of the ice sheet hundreds of miles to the west, ...
Scientists have been baffled to discover solid rock flowing 1,700 miles (2,700km) beneath the Earth's surface.
ETH Zurich scientists confirmed that solid rock flows deep inside Earth, solving a decades-old mystery about seismic waves.
The D" layer, some 2,700 kilometers (nearly 1,700 miles) below our feet, has been mystifying scientists for decades.
Recent findings suggest that Earth’s mantle might harbor hidden plumes venting heat from the planet’s core, a discovery that ...
Stalks of iron-rich minerals, each a fraction the size of an eyelash, may be evidence of the earliest life-forms to inhabit the newborn planet Earth ... vents. Discovered in slices of rock ...
Open a middle‑school Earth‑science book and you’ll see a tidy story: the North Atlantic split apart, Greenland sailed west ...
Earth’s magnetic field seems to correlate with conditions that helped complex life to thrive — a discovery that could aid the search for life on distant exoplanets.
New research reveals that Earth's core is leaking gold. Precious metals are moving from the core to the mantle and crust.