Far below the familiar blue of the oceans, scientists are uncovering evidence of a vast hidden reservoir of water locked inside the rocks of Earth’s mantle. Rather than a single underground sea, this ...

An ancient slab of Earth's crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is sucking huge swatches of present-day's North American crust down into the mantle, researchers say. The slab's pull has created giant ...

(a) Subduction of the reconstructed northern part of the Indian plate during the late Eocene. (b) A piece of subducted Indian lithosphere was detached and then sank into the MTZ seen as fast-velocity ...

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Scientists have confirmed the presence of an immense reservoir of water trapped deep within the Earth’s mantle, reshaping our understanding of the planet’s interior and water cycle. This revelation, ...

Due to the radiative thermal conductivity of the mineral olivine, only oceanic plates over 60 million years old and subducting at more than 10 centimeters per year remain sufficiently cold to ...

The mantle has three to five times more carbon than researchers would expect based on the proportion of elements in stars and other planets. The diamonds found in this layer of Earth might explain the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The formation and preservation of compositional heterogeneities inside the Earth affect mantle convection patterns globally and control the ...