Search results for porous volcanic rock

Earth Sciences Oct 8, 2023

Discovery of massive undersea water reservoir could explain New Zealand's mysterious slow earthquakes

Researchers have discovered a sea's worth of water locked within the sediment and rock of a lost volcanic plateau that's now deep in the Earth's crust. Revealed by a 3D seismic image, the water lies two miles under the ocean ...

Earth Sciences Jul 10, 2023

Unraveling the hidden growth of mineral dendrites

An international research team involving scientists from the University of Vienna, the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw and University of Edinburgh has described the process of growing three-dimensional manganese ...

Earth Sciences May 23, 2023

Extinct offshore volcano could store gigatons of carbon dioxide

A new study published in Geology concludes that an extinct volcano off the shore of Portugal could store as much as 1.2–8.6 gigatons of carbon dioxide, the equivalent of ~24–125 years of the country's industrial emissions.

Earth Sciences May 17, 2023

EPA's crackdown on power plant emissions is a big first step—but it will be hard to ensure captured carbon stays put

The U.S. government is planning to crack down on power plants' greenhouse gas emissions, and, as a result, a lot of money is about to pour into technology that can capture carbon dioxide from smokestacks and lock it away.

Earth Sciences Aug 8, 2022

A volcano is erupting again in Iceland. Is climate change causing more eruptions?

The Fagradalsfjall volcano in Iceland began erupting again on Wednesday after eight months of slumber—so far without any adverse impacts on people or air traffic.

Earth Sciences May 18, 2022

3D models reveal how seismic waves move through Earth

On a sunny morning in September 1985, a massive earthquake killed more than 9,000 people in Mexico City, even though the epicenter of the earthquake was some 200 miles away.

Biochemistry Dec 6, 2021

Gas bubbles in rock pores were a nursery for life on early Earth

Where and how did life begin on Early Earth more than 3.5 billion years ago from non-living chemicals? A key necessity for the first cells on Earth is the ability to make compartments and evolve to facilitate the first chemical ...

Space Exploration Nov 23, 2021

Analysis of Mars's wind-induced vibrations sheds light on the planet's subsurface properties

Seismic data collected in Elysium Planitia, the second largest volcanic region on Mars, suggest the presence of a shallow sedimentary layer sandwiched between lava flows beneath the planet's surface. These findings were gained ...

Paleontology & Fossils Sep 24, 2021

Organic molecule remnants found in nuclei of ancient dinosaur cells

A team of scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and from the Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature (STM) has isolated exquisitely preserved cartilage ...

Environment Jun 30, 2021

How green mining could pave the way to net zero and a sustainable future

Scientists at the University of Oxford demonstrate how it is possible to directly extract valuable metals from hot salty fluids ('brines') trapped in porous rocks at depths of around 2km below dormant volcanoes. They propose ...

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