It is the largest and strangest of all the formations on Earth: huge, mysterious blobs of ga ense stone hidden deep in the lower parts of our planet’s mantle. These include two large populations called the Large Low-Shear-Vagilance Provinces (LLSVPs) – one buried under Africa and the other under the …
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It is difficult to imagine what the earth would have looked like in the years before life began. Geological investigators have now found more evidence that it was different than the planet we live on today. According to a new analysis of the features of the Earth’s crust over its …
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Scientists have identified an old part of the Pacific Ocean – the ancient remnants of the ocean floor long before that – that stretches hundreds of miles below China in the transition zone of the Earth’s crust. The rocky slab that was used to line the bottom of the Pacific …
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According to new research, an underground ‘conveyor belt’ of magma pushed over the Earth’s surface for millions of years was responsible for the longest eruption of supervolcans found on Earth, according to new research. Researchers say that due to changes in the seabed, channels were formed through which magma could …
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About two to three times the distance from the Earth’s Sun, in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, 16 Manas make its home. This giant metal asteroid is one of the largest objects in the asteroid belt, classified as a small planet. Astronomers believe that 16 Manas is an …
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