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Study Suggests the Atlantic Ocean Is Expanding by a Couple of Inches Every Year Due to a Massive Upwelling
Study Suggests the Atlantic Ocean Is Expanding by a Couple of Inches Every Year Due to a Massive Upwelling The Atlantic Ocean ...
Seismic anisotropy in the deep mantle could partly be derived from the deformation of hydrous phase D
To investigate this, a team of researchers in Japan performed well-controlled deformation experiments on phase D aggregates ...
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Diamond From 400 Miles Deep Reveals a Water-Rich Environment
"The occurrence of ringwoodite together with the hydrous phases indicate a wet environment at this boundary," a team of ...
Seismic study reveals ancient 'islands' deep within Earth's mantle
Deeply hidden in Earth's mantle there are two huge "islands" the size of a continent. New research from Utrecht University ...
Claims for the world’s deepest earthquake challenged by new analysis
The magnitude 7.9 Bonin Islands earthquake sequence, which ruptured deep within the earth near the base of the upper mantle, did not include an aftershock that extended to record depths into the lower ...
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Layer cake or plum pudding?
the effects of water may keep the transition zone enriched in trace elements 10, and a concentration of trace elements may exist in a 'magma ocean' that has always existed above the core–mantle ...