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Scientists discover giant blobs deep inside Earth are 'evolving by themselves' — and we may finally know where they come from
"We found that the recycling of the oceanic crust can indeed generate these LLVP-like regions beneath the Pacific and Africa without the need for a primordial dense layer at the base of the mantle," ...
Geologists Found the World’s Oldest Crater—and It Might Have Jumpstarted All Life on Earth
Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...
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Plate tectonics
And the crust is this layer of solid rock that we live on ... These plates can be oceanic, meaning they're found mainly under the ocean, or continental, and mainly found under land.
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Scientists reveal evolutionary history of continent-sized regions in the deep mantle
Deep inside the mantle (the layer between Earth's iron core and ... One common hypothesis is that the LLVPs are made up of oceanic crust that was pushed into the mantle at subduction zones.
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Studying the evolutionary history of continent-sized regions in the deep mantle
Deep inside the mantle (the layer between Earth's iron core and ... One common hypothesis is that the LLVPs are made up of oceanic crust that was pushed into the mantle at subduction zones.