These ancient buried "super-continents"—known to scientists as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs)—were found ...

Over 25 years ago, researchers discovered that some of these deep Earth reverberations pointed to the existence of two ...

Scientists have discovered hidden treasures in the Earth's mantle. Hidden deep within Earth's mantle are two colossal ...

Deep within Earth’s mantle lie two enormous regions, often referred to as "islands," which are the size of continents.

Deeply hidden in Earth's mantle there are two huge "islands" the size of a continent. New research from Utrecht University ...

A new way of measuring structures deep inside Earth has highlighted numerous previously unknown blobs within our planet's ...

A computer model visualization of material in the lower mantle. This material resembles a sunken plate but cannot come from subducted plates because of the lack of nearby subduction zones.

Deeply hidden in Earth's mantle there are two huge 'islands' with the size of a continent. New research shows that these regions are not only hotter than the surrounding graveyard of cold sunken ...

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds.

Amid Earth’s mobile tectonic plates, subduction zones arise as regions of intense geological activity and concentrate minerals into ore deposits like gold.

The modern understanding of the plate tectonic cycle predicts that remnants of submerged plates will be found near subduction zones ... since the formation of the mantle four billion years ...