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May 12, 2016

Earth's upper mantle moving up and down 'like a yo-yo'
Cambridge UK (SPX) May 12, 2016
Researchers have compiled the first global set of observations of the movement of the Earth's mantle, the 3000-kilometre-thick layer of hot silicate rocks between the crust and the core, and have found that it looks very different to predictions made by geologists over the past 30 years. The team, from the University of Cambridge, used more than 2000 measurements taken from the world's oceans in order to peer beneath the Earth's crust and observe the chaotic nature of mantle flow, which forces the ... read more

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