Deep within Earth, halfway to its center in an area where Earth's core meets its mantle, lies a massive folded slab of rock that once was the ocean floor, reports a team of researchers in the ...

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The subducted slab is composed of essentially the same minerals as the surrounding mantle, but its temperature is about 700 degrees Celsius cooler, Hutko said. This temperature difference affects the ...

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Slab Of Sunken Ocean Floor Found Deep Within Earth. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 4, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2006 / 06 / 060603092903.htm. Arizona State University.

Halfway to the center of the Earth, at the boundary between the core and the mantle, lies a massive folded slab of rock that once formed the ocean floor and sank beneath North America some 50 million ...