Huge Parts of the Seafloor Are Literally Upside Down

Huge Parts of the Seafloor Are Literally Upside Down

At the bottom of the North Sea, buried beneath layers of sediment and fossilized sea creatures, scientists have discovered something that should not be there: giant mounds of dense sand. They seem quite literally to be the Earth’s geological layers, but flipped around. Essentially, the Earth’s insides are facing outwards. Publishing their findings in Communications Earth & Environment, Researchers from the University of Manchester and Norwegian …