There Are Mountains Deep Within the Earth

Published on May 4, 2021
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Captions provided by CCTubes – Captioning the Internet! Scientists think they’ve discovered some peaks taller than Mt Everest deep beneath the earth’s crust, and this range might be the key to one of the biggest mysteries in geology!

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Sources:
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6428/696
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/03/rugged-mountains-taller-everest-lurk-deep-inside-earth/
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6428/736
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-020-00649-y
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/decades-long-quest-drill-earths-mantle-may-soon-hit-pay-dirt-180957908/

Image Sources:
https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/earth-cross-section

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