Many people envision Earth’s structure as a tidy ... uses these measurements to create 3D models of the mantle. This reveals its hidden structures and helps us to understand its dynamic processes.

To find out, the team used whole-Earth oscillation data from 104 past earthquakes to create a detailed 3D model of the upper ...

Two enormous continent-sized "islands" found buried deep inside the Earth's mantle are challenging our ideas about our planet's inner workings. These unexpected regions of the Earth's innards appear ...

The model in the new study — the first 3D attenuation model for the entire mantle — will help seismologists to better understand what lies thousands of kilometers below Earth’s surface ...

A new way of measuring structures deep inside Earth has highlighted numerous previously unknown blobs within our planet's mantle ... by using seismographs — 3D images created by measuring ...

This is a 3D view of the top 1,000 kilometers of the earth's mantle beneath the central Pacific showing the relationship between seismically-slow "plumes" and channels imaged in the study.

Crystal structures of major mineral phases composing the Earth's deep mantle, (Mg,Fe)SiO3 bridgmanite (Brg), its high-pressure phase post-perovskite (PPv), CaSiO3 perovskite, and (Mg,Fe ...

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New research has identified numerous potential subducted slabs in surprising locations throughout Earth's mantle — the second outermost layer of our planet. | Credit: Vadim Sadovski/Shutterstock ...

Potential patches of Earth's ancient crust, sometimes called "sunken worlds," may have just been discovered deep within the mantle, thanks to a new way of mapping the inside of our planet.