Mystery of Earth’s missing chunk
From Times Wire Reports
British scientists set sail Monday on the new research ship RRS James Cook to study why a huge chunk of Earth’s crust is missing, deep under the Atlantic Ocean -- a phenomenon that challenges conventional ideas about how Earth works.
The team aims to survey an area 10,000 to 13,000 feet deep where the mantle -- Earth’s deep interior normally covered by a crust miles thick -- is exposed on the sea floor.
