Imaging the center of the Earth
Scientists from several U.S. universities had a bright idea. They’ve adapted the industry tools developed for oil and gas exploration to use the data provided by more than 1,000 seismic observatories to image the Earth’s mantle 2,900 kilometers beneath Central and North America. The team wants now to image the whole globe. It also thinks that these new imaging technologies could improve how we look for oil in or beneath geologically complex structures such as the Gulf of Mexico salt domes, but do we really need this? read story