The Earth’s mantle, stretching up to 1,800 miles thick and making up a whopping 84% of the planet’s volume, used to be ...

Some researchers speculate that these anomalies could be remnants of a “lost world” beneath the Pacific Ocean, perhaps fragments of tectonic plates or ancient land masses. The discovery has ...

G eoscientists have used earthquakes to study the composition of the lower portion of the Earth’s mantle under the Pacific ...

The mantle of the Earth, up to 1,800 miles (2,900 kms) thick and 84% of the Earth's volume, was assumed to be a simple ...

Specifically, they found areas in our planet's interior that appear to be the leftovers of submerged tectonic plates deep below ... be lurking deep below the Pacific Ocean, highlighting how ...

After suspecting the presence of a series of underwater volcanoes near the Cook Islands, researchers have now mapped out the ...

Also known as the Circum-Pacific Belt, the Ring of Fire traces the meeting points of many tectonic plates, including the ... This movement results in deep ocean trenches, volcanic eruptions ...

At ocean-ocean convergences, one plate usually dives beneath the other, forming deep trenches like the Mariana Trench in the North Pacific Ocean, the deepest point on Earth. These types of ...

NPL and MSL in New Zealand successfully detected a multitude of earthquakes in the Pacific Ocean using a pioneering detection ...

The Atlantic Ocean may begin to shrink ... as they are able to appear and close due to the work of plate tectonics. More specifically, subduction zones — where tectonic plates slip over and ...