Articles for tag: EarthScience, MantleMysteries, PlanetEarth, PlateTectonics

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Mysterious structures within Earth’s mantle may explain why we exist

Suhail Ahmed

  Deep below your feet, far beneath the crust and beyond the reach of any drill, lie colossal hidden structures that may have quietly shaped the history of life on Earth. For decades, seismologists have seen strange echoes in earthquake waves hinting at something enormous lurking at the base of the mantle, but no one ...