LONDON (Reuters) - A team of British scientists has set sail on a voyage to examine why a huge chunk of the earth's crust is missing, deep under the Atlantic Ocean -- a phenomenon that challenges conventional ideas about how the earth works.
The 20-strong team aims to survey an area some 3,000 to 4,000 metres deep where the mantle -- the deep interior of the earth normally covered by a crust kilometres thick -- is exposed on the sea floor.
Experts describe the hole along the mid-Atlantic ridge as an "open wound" on the ocean floor that has puzzled scientists for the five or so years that its existence has been known because it defies existing tectonic plate theories of evolution.
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link is dead, here is another article about it:
http://news.com.com/Missing+A+huge+c...3-6164853.html
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand... that link is dead, too.
Shit.
Wanted to read more.
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hmm, 2nd link still working for me...
http://www.indianexpress.com/story/24918.html
there is another article on it. Very interesting since it challenges the way we think the earth works...
I heard there's massive chunks of ice breaking off in the artic...great!
cant they put the ice in the hole???
Just in case you never get to see this report, I have done a screenie about it.
Then it would be a fargin IceHole!
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