Thirsty crystals The deep Earth holds about the same amount of water as our oceans. That’s the conclusion from experiments on rocks typical of those in the mantle transition zone, a global ...

An immediate consequence of the mantle's heterogeneous water-solubility distribution is that, for a wide range of water content, vertical motion across the transition zone results in a dramatic ...

The Earth's mantle transition zone contains water locked up in minerals — enough to rival the oceans on the surface of the planet. Skip to main content Open menu Close menu ...

The transition zone between the Earth's upper and lower mantle contains considerable quantities of water, according to an international study involving the Institute for Geosciences at Goethe ...

Geophysicists have long theorized that the mantle transition zone, wedged between the upper and lower mantle at depths of 410 to 660 kilometers, could be a secret vault for Earth’s lost water.

The mantle transition zone (MTZ), which occurs 410–670 kilometers below Earth's surface, may store several oceans' worth of ...

The transition zone between the Earth’s upper and lower mantle contains considerable quantities of water, according to an international study involving the Institute for Geosciences at Goethe ...

The dispute concerned whether there is water in the transition zone—the portion of the Earth’s mantle 250 to 410 miles underground, between the upper and lower mantle.

In the transition zone and upper mantle, a reverse phase transition from the CaCl 2-type phase to stishovite occurs, and water is thought to be released from silica as water-holding capacity in ...

Water stored in the mantle for millions of years may be linked to continental volcanism. The mantle transition zone (MTZ), which occurs 410–670 kilometers below Earth's surface, may store ...

The team looked to the transition zone (TZ), which is about 254 to 410 miles below the Earth in the boundary that separates the upper mantle and the lower mantle.

The transition zone between the Earth's upper and lower mantle contains considerable quantities of water, according to an international study. The research team analyzed a rare diamond formed 660 ...