Mountains 3 to 4 times higher than Mount Everest found deep in the ground: scientists

Scientists have discovered that the depths of the Earth contain mountains with peaks three to four times higher than Mount Everest. According to the BBCa team of experts from Arizona State University used the Antarctic Seismology Centers and found these stunningly massive mountains at the core-mantle boundary, about 2,900 kilometers deep inside our planet.

“The mountain-like structures they uncovered are completely mysterious.” BBC Read the report. Scientists explain that these underground mountain ranges – dubbed Extremely Low Velocity Zones, or ULVZs – managed to escape experts’ gaze all these years until earthquakes and atomic explosions produced enough seismic data to monitor them.

Scientists believe that these massive mountain ranges are more than 24 miles (38 kilometers) high, while Mount Everest is about 5.5 miles (8.8 kilometers) below the surface. Analyzing 1,000 seismic recordings from Antarctica, our high-resolution imaging method found thin, anomalous regions of material in the CMB. [core-mantle boundary] Everywhere we looked,” Arizona State University geophysicist Edward Garnero said in a statement.

He added, “The thickness of the material ranges from a few kilometers to 10 kilometers. This indicates that we see mountains in the core, in some places as high as 5 times Mount Everest.”

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Moreover, according to the report, experts have explained the possible reason behind the formation of these mysterious mountain peaks. They believe that these ancient formations arose when ocean crusts formed in the Earth’s interior. They also argue that it may have started with tectonic plates sliding downward in our planet’s mantle and sinking to the core-mantle boundary. These then slowly spread out to form a variety of structures, leaving behind a series of mountains and blobs. Thus, this would mean that these enigmatic mountains are made of ancient oceanic crust, which is a mixture of basalt rocks and sediments from the ocean floor.

Now, with this latest discovery, scientists seek to argue that these subterranean mountains may play an important role in how heat escapes from Earth’s core. “Seismic investigations, like ours, provide the highest resolution imaging of our planet’s internal structure, and we are finding that this structure is much more complex than previously thought,” said Samantha Hansen, study co-author and University of Alabama geoscientist. a permit.

“Our research provides important links between the shallow and deep Earth structure and the overall processes that drive our planet,” she added.