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For many years, researchers have been intrigued by two massive structures hidden deep beneath the Earth’s surface. These anomalies might possess geochemical characteristics that differ from…
The mantle of Mars houses ancient fragments measuring up to 4 km in width from its formation, as revealed by an analysis of seismic data gathered…
According to a study led by researchers at the University of Southampton, these pulses are gradually tearing apart the African continent, resulting in the formation of…
The Al Haja Mountains of Oman l_b_photography/shutterstock Researchers have discovered the first known “ghost plume” beneath Oman, suggesting a column of hot rock rising from the…
Ship cemetery in the desert of the Aral Sea in Uzbekistans@owwl / alamy Unsustainable irrigation and drought have caused changes that have empty almost all of…
A rock sample from Earth’s mantle viewed under a microscope Johan Lissenberg In the middle of the North Atlantic, geologists have drilled 1,268 metres below the…