Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

China is set to venture where humanity has scarcely been before: beneath the Earth's crust, into its mantle. To achieve this ...

Deep within Earth’s mantle lie two enormous, continent-sized structures known as LLVPs. Scientists once believed these ...

Continent-sized structures of mineral protruding from the lower mantle towards Earth's outer core may be contributing to an ...

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

Scientists have revealed that two continent-size regions in Earth's deep mantle have distinctive histories and resulting chemical composition, in contrast to the common assumption they are the same.

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.