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.

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

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

mantle and crust. Plate tectonic theory shows that the crust of the Earth is split into plates (pieces of the Earth’s crust). The movement of these tectonic plates leads to earthquakes and ...

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.

Although only an infant at the time of the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, Tomoya Onodera is among the young people ...

This mantle is constantly in motion due to the ... This is what is felt as the so-called earthquake. The Afar region is one of the most volcanically and tectonically active areas in the world.

This mantle is constantly in motion due to the heat from the deeper ... This is what is felt as the so-called earthquake. The ...