Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

In a recent paper published in National Science Review, a jointed team of scholars from China and UK has made significant ...

Material from the subducting plate usually disintegrates in the mantle, where blazing temperatures recycle the rocks into magma. Remarkably, the newly discovered slab somehow escaped that fate.

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

Focus: occurence of adakite rocks and their relationship to slab melt We are ... is linked to the diverse composition of the western Mexican sub-arc mantle The contribution of slab melt cannot be ...

But we did find a lot of damping in the cold slab graveyard, where the tones sounded very soft. "Unlike the upper mantle, where we found exactly what we expected: it is hot, and the waves are damped.