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.

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For a long time, scientists thought the Earth's inner core was a solid ball of metal, sort of like a planet within a planet that sits some 3,000 miles (4,828 kilometers) below the surface.

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

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have discovered that this core hides two distinct layers The surprising discovery about the Earth's core: "We may have to rewrite the textbooks" In 2021, the year of the discovery, Stephenson ...

This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. It is part three in a four-part series. Read part one here ...

The Earth's hidden ocean is 700 km beneath this continent. Scientists made a discovery that changes everything we thought we ...