Giant blobs deep inside Earth are 'evolving by themselves'
Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.
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Scientists reveal evolutionary history of continent-sized regions in the deep mantle
One common hypothesis is that the LLVPs are made up of oceanic crust that was pushed into the ... has challenged this view by modeling the formation of the LLVPs through time.
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The fate of carbonate in oceanic crust subducted into earth's lower mantle
Past work by members of the Petrology Group indicates that carbonate reduces the solidus of the subducted oceanic crust, promoting the formation of carbonatitic melts in the transition zone (Andrew R ...
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Plate tectonics
Continental and oceanic plates all fit together to form the outer crust of the planet. Eight major plates are named on the diagram below. Heat from the core makes magma in the mantle rise towards ...
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Studying the evolutionary history of continent-sized regions in the deep mantle
One common hypothesis is that the LLVPs are made up of oceanic crust that was pushed into the ... has challenged this view by modelling the formation of the LLVPs through time.