Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

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Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

In some way which, as yet, we understand but vaguely, both igneous and denudational differentiation then combined in developing the earth's crust. We now find in the latter all those rocks which ...

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A new study of decades worth of seismogram data shows that the surface of Earth’s iron and nickel core is more malleable than scientists thought.

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Earth is also the only planet in our solar system known to have plate tectonics, or pieces of the crust that move around ... is the content manager at Live Science. She is a science writer and ...