China is set to venture where humanity has scarcely been before: beneath the Earth's crust, into its mantle. To achieve this ...

Related: Scientists discover Earth's inner core isn't just slowing down — it's also changing shape Others have suggested that the blobs are huge chunks of oceanic crust that were pushed ... University ...

Surprising differences in the two so-called Large Low-Velocity Provinces may risk instability in Earth's protective magnetic field.

One of the worrying consequences of climate change is the rising sea level. This situation threatens many territories, ...

Surrounded by green hills and beige rock, Lake Salda sits in what is sometimes called the Turkish Lake District, a great place for hiking ...

where tectonic plates diverge and create new oceanic crust. However, their influence on moving magma has remained a mystery until now. A recent study conducted by Satish Singh's team at the Institut ...

Eventually, a new ocean basin forms ... and at the mid-ocean ridges that divide the oceanic crust. The mid-ocean ridges mark the lines along which the Earth is turning itself inside out through ...

A new study has revealed that two continent-sized ... One common hypothesis is that the LLVPs are made up of oceanic crust that was pushed into the mantle at subduction zones.

Drewitt, J. W. E., Walter, M. J., Zhang, H., McMahon, S. C., Edwards, D., Heinen, B. J., Lord, O. T., Anzellini, S., & Kleppe, A. K. (2019). The fate of carbonate in ...

In a new study, published Feb. 6 in the journal Scientific Reports, he and his colleagues used computer modeling to determine where subducted crust entered the mantle over the past billion years ...

A new study led by researchers at Cardiff University ... One common hypothesis is that the LLVPs are made up of oceanic crust that was pushed into the mantle at subduction zones.