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

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The Earth's surface is constantly reshaped by the movement of tectonic plates, which make up the continental crust on which ...

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Under the Pacific Ocean, hidden material was discovered in Earth’s mantle. So we have sunken, ancient worlds down there, and ...

One example of these areas is in the western Pacific, where the presence of a submerged plate should be impossible ... has survived despite the convective movements in the mantle,” Thomas ...

Beneath our feet, hundreds of kilometers deep, lies an invisible yet essential world: the Earth's mantle. For a long time, ...

The leftover pieces found under the Pacific Ocean surprised scientists as existing models have determined that there shouldn't be any such material in the area due to the lack of plate subduction ...

The researchers theorize that these far-off remnants could either be deposits of silica-rich material that have hung around ...

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Their locations below large water sources — including the western Pacific — and deep into landmasses mean they are far away from normal plate boundaries, an anomaly for such huge areas.

The Pacific is one large plate so it should not have any subduction material ... Alternatively they could be zones where iron-rich rocks accumulate as a consequence of mantle movements over billions ...