December 08, 2003
Planetary Sonogram

Slashdot featured this story detailing new efforts to study the earth's interior using tremors from earthquakes to make an image similar to that of a sonogram of a mother's womb. The results included the first evidence for "mantle plumes", rising columns of heat that form things like the Hawaiian Islands.

Posted by scott at December 08, 2003 09:02 AM

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