Science Bulletins: Mapping the Heat Beneath

As seismic waves from earthquakes pass through the planet, their patterns can reveal hidden dynamics—hotspots, deep-diving rock, melting mantle—in Earth's interior. An array of seismometers that's being installed across the United States is now allowing geophysicists to plot revelatory views of the Earth engine deep beneath our feet.

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