Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

The Pangean-era structure "It's being torn apart in real time" keeps the planet on edge. The ocean plate is now being torn ...

Roughly 250 million years ago, traveling from present-day Australia to North America would have been surprisingly simple-a ...

However, the hot temperature of the LLSVPs cannot fully explain the properties of the seismic waves they were hearing emanating from these regions deep within the Earth. The researchers suggest that ...

This distribution reflects the last two supercontinent cycles over the past billion years, explained Luc Doucet, a senior research fellow in Earth and planetary sciences at Curtin University ...

This results in the detection of a shadowy supercontinent, which can be said as still being somehow joined under some part of this earth. Iceland's role in the recent study This new theory holds a ...

“Over the past two billion years, Earth’s continents have collided together to form a supercontinent every 600 million years, known as the supercontinent cycle," he said. "This means that the ...

One supercontinent lies under Africa ... of evidence suggesting that the rocky mantle isn’t as well-stirred by Earth’s internal churning as once believed. And hidden structures or pockets ...

This indicates that the Earth's mantle might not work the way ... The researchers suggest that the buried supercontinent regions must also be made of much larger mineral grains than the buried ...

To account for the numerous gaps in the fossil record, they treated the parts of the world where fossils have not been uncovered as missing information rather than designating them areas where no ...