The Sandia and Los Alamos National Labs have partnered to develop a 3-D model of the Earth’s mantle. Called SALSA3D, the model is designed to assist US Air Force and the international Comprehensive ...

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The model shows mantle plumes (where the hot rock flows) starting at the bottom of the core-to-mantle boundary and climbing to the top, where they connect to volcanic hotspots in the Earth's crust.

Scientists mapping Earth in 3D, ... readings of roughly 3,000 quakes of magnitude 5.5 and greater the geologists can produce a three-dimensional model of the structures under the Earth's surface.

Earth rotates the way it does because of how it formed early in the history of the solar system, but all things in space rotate.

The new model of the Earth's mantle and crust from Sandia National Laboratories and Los Alamos National Laboratory is called Sandia-Los Alamos 3D, or SALSA3D.

A very cool 3D model just posted today by ‘Gerardo64’ at the GEC Models Forum. Make sure you use the pan/tilt features to look at this in Google Earth after you download the 3D model of Unisphere.

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