Earth's interior is cooling faster than expected. Jan 14, 2022. A new way of looking at the Earth's interior. ... Seismic waves accelerate in the D" layer, about 2,700 km deep, ...

Something unusual is happening deep within Earth’s mantle,around 1,700 miles below the surface, where seismic waves accelerate in a way that has left scientists scratching their heads for decades.

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The huge column of hot rock, known as a mantle plume or a 'ghost plume', which rises from deep inside the earth beneath ...

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Nearly 3,000 kilometers beneath Earth’s surface is a puzzling zone known as the D” (D double-prime) layer. For decades, scientists have noticed something unusual here: seismic waves, the vibrations ...

They have demonstrated why earthquake waves change abruptly at a depth of 2,700 kilometres at the so-called D'' layer. The reason for this is a type of solid rock that nevertheless flows. This mineral ...

For over 50 years, researchers have been puzzling over a strange zone deep inside the earth - the so-called D" layer, around 2700 kilometres beneath our feet. Earthquake waves suddenly behave ...