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Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch’entrate, reads the gates to the Inferno. “Abandon all hope, you who enter,” which is a pretty nice way of saying “welcome to Hell.” But there’s a real underworld, albeit one with fewer dogs and less being blown around by the wind or wading through shit. Scientists are working on a comprehensive map of it. A map of hell. Kind of.
The Earth is made of tectonic plates, immense sections of crust and mantle spreading apart and crushing together, causing things like volcanism, earthquakes and continental drift. Through the process called subduction, one plate can slide beneath another, leaving a section of Earth to descend into the mantle called a slab. A team of European scientists have been working on the Atlas of the Underworld, a map of these slabs, to learn about the Earth’s mantle and the history and geography of this sub-surface world. They’ve now published a scientific paper detailing their results in the journal Tectonophysics.
“Now we can trace not only how plates move over the surface, but how they sink to the core-mantle boundary,” Douwe van Hinsbergen from the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands told Gizmodo. “That’s the cool thing for me—we can learn about the physics inside the Earth.”
You may think that plates that sink deep into the mantle just melt—but in fact, they stick around for a long time and can sink as deep as 3,000 kilometers [1,860 miles], explained van Hinsbergen. The catalogue is “the first and extensive global framework for interpretation of present-day global mantle structure and its physical properties and how that relates to our planet’s dynamic evolution of the past 300 [million years],” according to the paper.
This hellish Atlas is a 17-year-long effort, compiling troves of data from troves of research in which these slabs were imaged. To image these slabs, the researchers used seismic tomography. It’s a lot like medical imaging but using the speed of sound waves through the Earth to reconstruct images, rather than light waves interacting with some other surface……more here
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