A breakthrough study has provided the most detailed 3D look yet at the inner workings of the Tonga Subduction Zone, where ...

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

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.

High-Resolution Anisotropic Tomography Reveals Mantle Flow Complexity and Slab-Plume Interactions, Redefining Subduction Zone ...

Surprising differences in the two so-called Large Low-Velocity Provinces may risk instability in Earth's protective magnetic ...

It was a respectable tenure, but the world’s oldest known meteorite site is no longer western Australia’s 2.2 ...

The layers of Earth's internal structures. (Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) Millions of years of natural ...

Using advanced computer simulations, researchers have reconstructed the geological past of the region, uncovering a ...

The two continent-sized provinces have been known since the 1970s, but it’s only in the last few years we’ve started to ...

Few other scientific drilling ships exist – and none of this caliber. There is Japan’s Chikyū with a maximum drilling depth of 7 kilometers (4.3 miles) and there was the US-owned JOIDES Resolution ...

Studying the Evolutionary History of Continent-Sized Regions in the Deep Mantle Feb. 28, 2025 — Scientists have revealed that two continent-size regions in Earth's deep mantle have distinctive ...