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Danish Research Center To Explore Mysteries of Earth's Interior

Posted by samzenpus on from the jules-verne-approved dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The DanSeis Centre at the University of Copenhagen has just received a grant of more than €3 million from the Danish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Higher Education to investigate and tackle one of geoscience's great mysteries: do mantle plumes, hypothetically buoyant regions of heated mantle material rising towards the earth's surface, actually exist?"

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  1. Re:Onion and /. by Anonymus · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Slashdot is basically the techie equivalent of Fox News. We don't really come here to get information, we come here to get entertained and enraged by things that fit our point of view.

  2. Re:What "new methods and instruments" ? by Rakshasa-sensei · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Also they aren't out to drill for oil at 500-1000 km depths.

  3. Re:What "new methods and instruments" ? by hackertourist · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The oil industry won't spend money researching depths they can't drill to.