What is going on down there?
, the study authors said that just like continents, these deep-Earth structures can form "superblobs" and then break up over time. Their models say the African blob was probably born just 60 million years ago, a far cry from previous estimates that it had been there for nearly ten times as long.
Weirdly enough, the researchers say this discovery could help Earth's economy, as the new understanding could better detect where deposits of diamonds, nickel and other metals may surface, making them easier to mine and harvest. Although, to be fair, the crystal and mineral mining industries oftenMore on misuse of energy and power:
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