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Six Never-Before-Seen Mystery Structures Found Lurking Deep Inside The Earth
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The result is a comprehensive global map of these deep structures – which reveals that some of the strange features scientists have detected at the bottom of the mantle may be much more extensive than previously thought.
Interpreting their findings cautiously, the researchers conclude that the small-scale structures they identified may be "thermochemical piles" shaped by some combination of multi‐episode subducted slab remnants, localized partial melting, mineral transitions, and interactions with known 'giant blobs' called large low-shear-velocity provinces.
In a new study, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth , researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have used a machine learning program to sift through more than 2 million earthquake recordings collected over three and a half decades.
According to research from 2023 , there are a variety of materials in the deep mantle, "such as continental crust, sediments, oceanic crust, and primitive mantle materials".
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- In a new study, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth , researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have used a machine learning program to sift through more than 2 million earthquake…
- The result is a comprehensive global map of these deep structures – which reveals that some of the strange features scientists have detected at the bottom of the mantle may be much more extensive than previously thought.
- According to research from 2023 , there are a variety of materials in the deep mantle, "such as continental crust, sediments, oceanic crust, and primitive mantle materials".
- Interpreting their findings cautiously, the researchers conclude that the small-scale structures they identified may be "thermochemical piles" shaped by some combination of multi‐episode subducted slab remnants,…
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