Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

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

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

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

Continent-sized structures of mineral protruding from the lower mantle towards Earth's outer core may be contributing to an ...

The two continent-sized provinces have been known since the 1970s, but it’s only in the last few years we’ve started to ...

Deep within Earth’s mantle lie two enormous, continent-sized structures known as LLVPs. Scientists once believed these ...

Scientists have revealed that two continent-size regions in Earth's deep mantle have distinctive histories and resulting chemical composition, in contrast to the common assumption they are the same.