And the crust is this layer of solid rock that we live on ... These plates can be oceanic, meaning they're found mainly under the ocean, or continental, and mainly found under land.

indicating widespread melting responsible for oceanic crust formation. These findings provide new insights into mantle development and the complex interactions between Earth’s layers over ...

"We found that the recycling of the oceanic crust can indeed generate these LLVP-like regions beneath the Pacific and Africa without the need for a primordial dense layer at the base of the mantle ...