TECTONICS

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How life and geology worked together to forge Earth's nutrient rich crust
May 11, 2023 (SPX)
Now, research led by the University of Cambridge has shown that the diversification of life at this time also led to a drastic change in the chemistry of Earth'...
How did the Andes Mountains get so huge
Apr 14, 2023 (SPX)
University of Copenhagen researchers come with a new hypothesis. Using a novel method developed by one of the researchers, they closely studied the tectonic pla...
Warm liquid spewing from Cascadia fault offer clues to earthquake hazards
Apr 12, 2023 (SPX)
A study led by the University of Washington discovered seeps of warm, chemically distinct liquid shooting up from the seafloor about 50 miles off Newport, Orego...
Beneath the Earth, ancient ocean floor likely surrounds the core
Apr 10, 2023 (SPX)
Seen only in isolated patches previously, the latest data suggests this layer of ancient ocean floor may cover the core-mantle boundary. Subducted underground l...
Was plate tectonics occurring when life first formed on Earth?
Apr 10, 2023 (SPX)
But what was plate tectonic activity like during early Earth? And was the process even occurring during the time when life is thought to have formed? "The dynam...
Alaska study compares ground motion from satellites and seismic records
Mar 13, 2023 (SPX)
Researchers were able to compare how well each type of data performed in assessing the 2021 magnitude 8.2 Chignik earthquake in Alaska, as they report in the jo...
Land surface has been displaced by up to six metres
Feb 17, 2023 (SPX)
The larger fracture in the south is a result of the main earthquake that occurred in the early morning hours on 6 February 2023. The second fracture, which lies...
New insight into the relationship between slow slip events and the build-up and release of tectonic strain
Feb 13, 2023 (SPX)
To shed some light on this, Kobe University's KAWABATA Hiroki (1st year Master's student, Department of Planetology, Graduate School of Science) and Professor Y...
Scientists detect molten rock layer hidden under earth's tectonic plates
Feb 07, 2023 (SPX)
Researchers had previously identified patches of melt at a similar depth. But a new study led by The University of Texas at Austin revealed for the first time t...
China resumes issuing visas for Japanese citizens
Jan 29, 2023 (AFP)
The move ends a retaliatory step against Japan's decision to require Covid testing for travellers arriving from mainland China, where the number of infections w...
Researchers uncover secrets on how Alaska's Denali Fault formed
Jan 19, 2023 (SPX)
Studying these faults can help geoscientists not only better understand the process of plate tectonics, which helped form the planet's continents and mountains,...
NASA scientists and satellites make sense of Earth's subtle motions
Jan 12, 2023 (JPL)
Geologists once had to go into the field over and over again to collect data on how Earth moves, using technology like GPS and plotting each new measurement on ...
Geothermal could become workhorse of the energy transition
Nov 01, 2022 (SPX)
Carlos Araque of Quaise Energy made those remarks during a panel discussion titled, "Is this geothermal's moment?" Quaise is developing a unique drilling techni...
Slowing of continental plate movement controlled timing of Earth's largest volcanic events
Sep 12, 2022 (SPX)
Surprisingly the new research, published in leading international journal Science Advances, suggests a slowing of continental plate movement was the critical ev...
Diamonds and rust at the Earth's core-mantle boundary
Sep 06, 2022 (SPX)
The Earth's core is the largest carbon storage on Earth - roughly 90% is buried there. Scientists have shown that the oceanic crust that sits on top of tectonic...
Plate tectonics drives ocean oxygenation
Aug 19, 2022 (SPX)
Work by scientists at the Biogeosciences Laboratory (CNRS/UBFC), together with their colleagues at the University of California's Department of Earth and Planet...
Scientists confirm millions-year-old dripping of Earth's lithosphere under Andes
Jul 14, 2022 (SPX)
Though the process is a relatively new concept in the decades-old field of plate tectonics, several examples of lithospheric drip around the world have been ide...
Seismic waves from earthquakes reveal changes in the Earth's outer core
Jun 24, 2022 (SPX)
Though the earthquakes occurred two decades apart, because they occurred in the same region, they'd be expected to send seismic waves through the Earth's layers...
New study shows the inner core oscillates
Jun 13, 2022 (SPX)
Their study, published in Science Advances, shows that the inner core changed direction in the six-year period from 1969-74, according to the analysis of seismi...
Which forces control the elevation of mountains?
Jun 03, 2022 (SPX)
A Beaumont number between 0.4 and 0.5 means that the mountains are in a so-called flux steady state in which the controlling factors of mountain growth are tect...
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