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Underneath Earth’s Crust Scientists Have Discovered Out of Place Blobs of Mysterious Composition
The Earth has a hard, thin crust and molten mantle. However, experts now say the latter is less homogenous than we once thought and new tech is finally letting us figure out just what’s under there.
Two buried ‘supercontinents’ hiding inside Earth could be much older than previously thought
Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...
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Structure of the Earth
The Earth has a layered structure made up of the core, the mantle and the crust. Different elements are present in different parts of the Earth’s structure. The crust is made from enormous ...
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Newly discovered undersea structures stun scientists: ‘Is there a lost world beneath the Pacific Ocean?’
New research shows bizarre happenings beneath the Earth’s crust. ETHZ Zurich What’s ... and were often colder or of different composition than their counterparts. The discovery even led ...
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Some of Earth's oldest crust is disintegrating. No cause for alarm, folks.
Stable parts of the Earth's crust may not be as immovable as previously thought. While much of the crust is affected by plate tectonic activity, certain more stable portions have remained ...
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EU awards €5 grant to 18 international researchers in critical raw materials, the “21st century's gold”
ForMovFluid aims to meet the demands of the European Union by seeking to exploit deposits within its own borders. The initiative is structured as a doctoral network, which is currently actively ...
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Two buried ‘supercontinents’ hiding inside Earth could be much older than previously thought
The mantle, a zone between our planet’s thin crust and the molten core ... a professor of structure and composition of Earth’s deep interior at Utrecht University. “There was no information ...