Earth's crust slowly being destroyed
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research shows that the Earth’s crust is now undergoing high rates of destruction.
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News tagged with earths crust
New study suggests gigantic masses in Earth's mantle untouched for more than 4 billion years
Ancient, distinct, continent-sized regions of rocks, isolated since before the collision that created the Moon 4.5 billion years ago, exist hundreds of miles below the Earth's crust, offering a window into the building blocks ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 19, 2019
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Curiosity finds rocks that might point to a continental crust on Mars
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers from the U.S., France and the U.K. is reporting that data sent back by the Mars rover Curiosity suggests that the Red Planet may have once had a continental crust similar to that found back ...
Glimpse deep into Earth's crust finds heat source that may stabilize continents
Rocks from the Rio Grande continental rift have provided a rare snapshot of active geology deep inside Earth's crust, revealing new evidence for how continents remain stable over billions of years, according to a team of ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 19, 2020
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Magma pancakes beneath Lake Toba
Where do the tremendous amounts of material that are ejected to from huge volcanic calderas during super-eruptions actually originate?
Earth Sciences
Oct 30, 2014
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Diamonds and rust at the Earth's core-mantle boundary
Steel rusts by water and air on the Earth's surface. But what about deep inside the Earth's interior?
Earth Sciences
Aug 31, 2022
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Rare gas find solves puzzle of Southern Africa's soaring landscape
The discovery of gases released from deep beneath the Earth's crust could help to explain Southern Africa's unusual landscape, a study suggests.
Earth Sciences
Nov 19, 2019
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Plate tectonics may have been active on Earth since the very beginning
A new study suggests that plate tectonics—a scientific theory that divides the earth into large chunks of crust that move slowly over hot viscous mantle rock—could have been active from the planet's very beginning. The ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 26, 2018
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Critical role of granite in evolution of life on Earth revealed in new study
It’s one of the world’s toughest forms of rock, used to create buildings and monuments across the globe, and famously linked with one of Scotland’s main cities.
Earth Sciences
Jun 13, 2012
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Mars's crust is more complex and evolved than previously thought
Early crust on Mars may be more complex than previously thought—and it may even be similar to our own planet's original crust.
Planetary Sciences
Nov 4, 2022
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