The Earth's oldest surface layer forming continents, termed its crust, is approximately 4 billion years old and is comprised of 25–50km-thick volcanic rocks known as basalts. Originally, scientists thought that one complete ...
An international team of scientists have uncovered an important link between Earth's early atmosphere and the chemistry of its deep mantle.
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What is the risk of a volcano erupting? To answer this question, scientists need information about its underlying internal structure. However, gathering this data can take several years of fieldwork, analyses and monitoring, ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 31, 2023
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A trio of volcanologists and geologists from Lithium Americas Corporation, GNS Science, and Oregon State University reports evidence that the McDermitt Caldera, on the Nevada/Oregon, border, may host some of the largest known ...
Geoscientists have long thought that water—along with shallow magma stored in Earth's crust—drives volcanoes to erupt. Now, thanks to newly developed research tools at Cornell, scientists have learned that gaseous carbon ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 7, 2023
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The link between a planetary interior and its surface is a key to understanding the formation process of the surface environment of the planet.
Earth Sciences
Jul 6, 2023
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Understanding the atmosphere and surface environment of the early Earth, especially before the origin of life, is a key to understanding the habitability of the Earth.
Earth Sciences
Jul 6, 2023
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University of Queensland researchers have optimized a new technique to help forecast how volcanoes will behave, which could save lives and property around the world. The research is published in Science Advances.
Environment
Jul 5, 2023
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A small team of geologists and seismologists from the University of Utah, Salt Lake, the Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei and the University of New Mexico has studied the content of the Yellowstone magma ...
Ten years ago, Samer Naif made an unexpected discovery in Earth's mantle: a narrow pocket, proposed to be filled with magma, hidden some 60 kilometers beneath the seafloor of the Cocos Plate.
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