The mantle, a zone between our planet’s thin crust and the molten core, features 1,800 miles (2,900 kilometers) of mostly solid rock, with a consistency like thickened caramel that scientists ...

A new way of measuring structures deep inside Earth has highlighted numerous previously unknown blobs within our planet's mantle. These anomalies are surprisingly similar to sunken chunks of Earth ...

With the grooves cut, cut 1/2-in ... When the glue holding the front panel together has cured, build the mantel box. We're ...

Long-lost remnants of tectonic plates have been discovered sunken deep inside the Earth's mantle. These plate remains were found lurking underneath the center of other continental plates ...

Both supercontinents formed over what is now the African domain A new study reveals that Earth's mantle is divided by the Pacific Ring of Fire, a geological scar reflecting the formation and ...

Extracting more information from waves So far, the researchers can only speculate. "We think that the anomalies in the lower mantle have a variety of origins," says Schouten. He believes it is ...