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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: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.