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A collaborative study by Chinese and Japanese scientists has uncovered evidence of ancient lower mantle flow fields beneath the Philippine Sea Plate, offering new insights into the Earth’s deep interior dynamics and the widespread presence of seismic anisotropy in the lower mantle.Scientists from China and Japan have identified unique features of the flow field in the lower mantle. Through their study of seismic anisotropy in the upper section of the lower mantle beneath the Philippine Sea Plate, they discovered that the…

Late into Chapter 2 of Alone in the Dark you will be tasked with solving the plate puzzle on the boiler in the basement. This comes after returning from a mysterious oil field. In order to solve this puzzle, you will first need to gather the missing pieces of the puzzle, one located beyond the broken boiler itself and the other is one of the patient's rooms. Here's how to solve the puzzle.Cassandra's Room Lock BoxThe first piece is located inside a box in Cassandra's Room, found on the second floor…

A schematic diagram showing remnants of the early Cenozoic Pacific lower mantle flow beneath the Philippine Sea Plate. The white bars and gray dashed lines denote remnants of the Pacific lower mantle flow field at about 50 Ma and 40 Ma, respectively. Credit: IOCAS Researchers from China and Japan have discovered distinct characteristics of Earth's lower mantle flow field. They investigated seismic anisotropy in the upper part…

University of Toronto geoscientists have made a significant breakthrough in plate tectonics, discovering that the Pacific Plate is not as rigid as previously thought but is instead torn by large undersea faults. This challenges traditional views and suggests a more complex interaction between oceanic plates and the Earth’s mantle. Credit: SciTechDaily.comResearch indicates that the Pacific Plate is being torn apart at undersea plateaus across the ocean, due to the weight of the oceanic plate subducting along the Western…

Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and Union Minister Amit Shah is known for his stances on many political issues. Recently, Amit Shah’s name has been in the news in relation to the Citizenship Amendment Act, or CAA. There are reports suggesting that the central government is likely to announce the CAA 2019 regulations ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. A picture of Amit Shah arriving at the BJP headquarters in Delhi has gone viral on the internet. The leader is seen arriving in a Tata Safari Dicor with the…

New research sheds light on temperature and stress levels at a plate boundary in northern Honshu, Japan. Credit: Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC Temperature and shear stress are two influential variables that affect faulting and seismicity in subduction zones, where tectonic plates converge. Yet because earthquakes originate tens of kilometers below Earth's surface at plate boundaries, the effects of…

A picture posted on social media last weekend has sparked a wave of curiosity and admiration. The photo captures the car of the Chief Justice of India, Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud, and the attention-grabber isn’t its luxurious make (a Mercedes E-Class) but its unique number plate: DL1 CJI 0001. Saw Chief Justice of India, Dhananjay Chandrachud at a private function in Delhi yesterday. On my way out, I couldn’t help notice his car’s licence plate number: DL1 CJI 0001. Very cool. Wonder if the Chief Election…

While it's the reigning theory now, the road to acceptance was long and bumpy for plate tectonics, which describes how large portions of Earth's crust slide, grind, rise and sink ever so slowly across its sludgy mantle.But even now, more than half a century after it was given the scientific tick of approval, the theory needs some refining.A new study looking at four plateaus in the western Pacific Ocean suggests that these expansive areas aren't rigid slabs but weak spots being yanked apart by distant forces at the…

Researchers discovered new undersea faults on the Pacific plate, some of which are thousands of meters below the surface of the ocean and hundreds of kilometers long. Credit: NOAA/NASA GOES Project A team of geoscientists from the University of Toronto is shedding new light on the century-old model of plate tectonics, which suggests the plates covering the ocean floors are rigid as they move across the Earth's mantle.…

A massive collision between the Indian tectonic plate and the Eurasian tectonic plate is causing the Himalayas to grow, but new research suggests it might also be ripping Tibet apart.According to new findings shared at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union, data shows that a collision between two major tectonic plates may be having some unforeseen consequences for Tibet. While we already knew that the Himalayas were growing, these new findings suggest that Tibet will be split apart in the process.…