Seismic imaging has exposed two massive zones hidden deep in Earth’s mantle. These giant blobs, known as large low-velocity provinces, or LLVPs, stretch beneath Africa and the Pacific. They are so ...
When Earth was a molten inferno, water may have been locked safely underground rather than lost to space. Researchers ...
Earth's deep mantle stored enough water in rocks to equal one ocean during our planet's early molten days, helping explain ...
Far below the oceans and continents we know, Earth’s deep mantle appears to have stored far more water in its early history ...