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Earth’s Longest Volcanic Ridge Is on the Move—and Scientists Didn’t See It Coming
A massive volcanic ridge beneath the Indian Ocean has just delivered a major surprise to geologists. According to a new study ...
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Scientists Just Uncovered What Earth Looked Like Before It Was Even Fully Formed
New research is reshaping how scientists understand the earliest days of Earth’s formation—suggesting that the deep interior ...
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Earth’s Longest Volcanic Ridge May Be an Underwater Moving Hotspot
Scientists uncover surprising evidence that the Kerguelen hotspot, responsible for the 5,000-kilometer-long Ninetyeast Ridge, ...
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How hidden water in Earth’s mantle might spark volcanoes
Scientists have long been puzzled by volcanoes that erupt far from the edges of tectonic plates—known as intraplate volcanoes ...
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Advanced seismic imaging deciphers mantle dynamics beneath Tonga subduction zone
Conducted by researchers from Ocean University of China and Tohoku University, Japan, the work combines innovative seismic methodologies to map mantle flow patterns, slab-plume interactions ...
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There could be hundreds’: Big discovery under the Pacific after 200 million years
The mantle of the Earth, up to 1,800 miles (2,900 kms) thick and 84% of the Earth's volume, was assumed to be a simple ...
York University research sheds light on earliest days of Earth’s formation
Wednesday March 26 – New research led by a York University professor sheds light on the earliest days of the earth’s formation and potentially calls into question some earlier assumptions in planetary ...