El Adelantado de Segovia9d
Geologists discover a giant ocean hidden beneath the Earth that could change what we know about water on the planet
Like straight out of Julio Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth, scientists from Northwestern University and the ...
Phys.org on MSN9d
Water stored in the mantle for millions of years may be linked to continental volcanism
The mantle transition zone (MTZ), which occurs 410–670 kilometers below Earth's surface, may store several oceans' worth of water. This water, which is carried to such depths by subducting tectonic ...
Knowridge Science Report6d
How hidden water in Earth’s mantle might spark volcanoes
Scientists have long been puzzled by volcanoes that erupt far from the edges of tectonic plates—known as intraplate volcanoes ...
National Geographic news13d
The Permian extinction—when life nearly came to an end
"That's your Permo-Triassic transition zone. Brace yourself ... "Hundreds of cubic miles spread across Siberia—enough to cover the Earth to a depth of about 20 feet (6 meters)." ...