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In the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, geologists have burrowed 1268 metres below the seafloor – the deepest hole drilled into Earth’s ... Upon analysing the drill core sample, the ...
Scientists have uncovered new information about the Earth's core: it may not be completely solid. Instead, its center may be more malleable than expected and has changed shape in recent years.
To understand the mantle—the largest layer of Earth’s rocky body—scientists drill deep cores out of the Earth. Scientists drilled the deepest core yet and recovered serpentinized peridotite ...
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As well as offering new insights into mantle composition, the drill core gives us other glimpses into Earth's deep geology and the conditions that could have been involved in the origins of life.