Yet, perhaps the most awe-inspiring is this: deep beneath ... Bound Water Certain minerals in the Earth's crust, like olivine, serpentine, and mica, can trap water within their crystal structures.

A new way of measuring structures deep inside Earth has highlighted numerous previously unknown blobs within our planet's mantle. These anomalies are surprisingly similar to sunken chunks of Earth's ...

"The occurrence of ringwoodite together with the hydrous phases indicate a wet environment at this boundary," a team of researchers led by mineral physicist Tingting Gu of the Gemological Institute of ...