Speed gun for Earth's insides to help measure mantle motion

Thursday, October 28, 2010 - 09:31 in Earth & Climate

Researchers have developed a seismological "speed gun" for the inside of Earth. Using this technique they will be able to measure the way the Earth's deep interior slowly moves around. This mantle motion is what controls the location of our continents and oceans, and where the tectonic plates collide to shake the surface we live on.

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