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Geologists take Earth's inner temperature using erupted sea glass
Jul 30, 2021 (SPX)
Now geologists at MIT have analyzed thousands of samples of erupted material along ocean ridges and traced back their chemical history to estimate the temperatu...
Selenium may support deep microbial life in Earth's continental crust
Jul 28, 2021 (SPX)
Only a few places worldwide, mostly some of the oldest continental crust fragments such as Archean cratons, enable direct sampling of the continental deep biosp...
The Earth has 27.5-million-year cycle of geological activity
Jun 18, 2021 (SPX)
Over the past five decades, researchers have proposed cycles of major geological events - including volcanic activity and mass extinctions on land and sea - ran...
Earth's oldest minerals date onset of plate tectonics to 3.6 billion years ago
May 17, 2021 (SPX)
Earth is the only planet known to host complex life and that ability is partly predicated on another feature that makes the planet unique: plate tectonics. No o...
China to set up separation line on Mount Everest over Covid-19 fears
May 10, 2021 (AFP)
While the virus first emerged in China in late 2019, it has largely been brought under control in the country through a series of strict lockdowns and border cl...
Mountain growth influences greenhouse effect
Apr 09, 2021 (SPX)
A group of researchers led by Aaron Bufe and Niels Hovius of the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) has now taken advantage of the different erosion r...
Curtin research finds first clues to start of Earth's supercontinent cycle
Mar 26, 2021 (SPX)
Detailed in a paper published in Geology, a team of researchers from Curtin's Earth Dynamics Research Group found that plate tectonics operated differently befo...
Study finds transform faults play active role in shaping ocean floors
Mar 18, 2021 (SPX)
First, the geological formations that are most important for its understanding lie at the bottom of the oceans. Secondly, forces controlling the processes act b...
UH geologists discover powerful 'river of rocks' below Caribbean
Mar 17, 2021 (SPX)
In their study published in Nature Communications, researchers from the UH College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics looked at minute changes in satellite-det...
Crystals suggest Earth's crust enjoyed growth spurt 3 billion years ago
Jan 12, 2021 (UPI)
According to a new study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, the process fueled a massive crustal growth three billion years ago. Scientists...
Scientists discover an ancient island arc in the Kyrgyz Tien Shan
Jan 01, 2021 (SPX)
One of the recent discoveries of the international research team is the discovery of this specific rock assemblage that is characteristic of modern oceanic isla...
Slow start of plate tectonics despite a hot early Earth
Dec 23, 2020 (SPX)
In an international collaboration earth scientists at the University of Cologne discovered that during Earth's early history mantle convection on, i.e. the inte...
New study helps pinpoint when earth's plate subduction began
Dec 14, 2020 (SPX)
According to findings published Dec. 9 in the journal Science Advances, this process could have started 3.75 billion years ago, reshaping Earth's surface and se...
What will the climate be like when earth's next supercontinent forms?
Dec 03, 2020 (SPX)
The study, which has been submitted for publication, is the first to model the climate on a supercontinent in the deep future. Scientists aren't exactly sure wh...
Young continents were fragile and prone to destruction
Dec 02, 2020 (UPI)
Earth formed roughly 4.5 billion years ago, but the planet's infancy -- its first 1.5 billion years -- and the processes that shaped its continental features ar...
Former piece of Pacific Ocean floor imaged deep beneath China
Nov 18, 2020 (SPX)
The study, published by a team of Chinese and U.S. researchers in Nature Geoscience, offers new evidence about what happens to water-rich oceanic tectonic plate...
East African Rift System is slowly breaking away, with Madagascar splitting into pieces
Nov 16, 2020 (SPX)
These developments will redefine Africa and the Indian Ocean. The finding comes in a new study by D. Sarah Stamps of the Department of Geosciences for the journ...
Scientists show former piece of Pacific Ocean floor sliding beneath China
Nov 16, 2020 (UPI)
The feat, described this month in the journal Nature Geoscience, marks the first time scientists have characterized the top and bottom of a rocky tectonic plate...
Lost and found: UH geologists 'resurrect' missing tectonic plate
Oct 21, 2020 (SPX)
A team of geologists at the University of Houston College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics believes they have found the lost plate in northern Canada by usin...
Glimpse deep into Earth's crust finds heat source that may stabilize continents
Oct 20, 2020 (SPX)
"We tend to study rocks that are millions to billions of years old, but in this case we can show what's happening in the deep crust, nearly 19 miles below the s...
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