A new Rice University-led study finds that a deep connection about 50 miles underground can explain the enigmatic behavior of two of Earth's most notable volcanoes, Hawaii's Mauna Loa and Kilauea. The study, the first to ...
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Oct 23, 2012
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As published this month in Nature Geoscience, researchers and industry partners have produced the first major 'cat scan of the earth'. Their work reveals a new chart of the sub-continental lithosphere mantle and its potential ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 28, 2013
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A new analysis of the processes that constantly stir the Earth's deep mantle is helping to explain how the mantle holds onto a portion of ancient noble gases that were trapped during the Earth's formation.
Earth Sciences
May 27, 2009
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As ancient ocean floors plunge over 1,000 km into the Earth's deep interior, they cause hot rock in the lower mantle to flow much more dynamically than previously thought, finds a new UCL-led study.
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Mar 25, 2019
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Over billions of years, the total carbon content of the outer part of the Earth—in its upper mantle, crust, oceans, and atmospheres—has gradually increased, scientists reported this month in the journal Proceedings ...
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Jun 19, 2015
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Recovered minerals that originated in the deep mantle can give scientists a rare glimpse into the dynamic processes occurring deep inside of the Earth and into the history of the planet's mantle layer. A team led by Yingwei ...
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Apr 7, 2017
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The largest magmatic events on Earth are caused by massive melting of ascending large volumes of hot material from the Earth's interior.
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Apr 24, 2015
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Earth is the only known planet that holds water in massive quantities and in all three phase states. But the earthly, omnipresent compound water has very unusual properties that become particularly evident when subjected ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 13, 2013
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Slowly but steadily, an enormous mass of warm rock is rising beneath part of New England, although a major volcanic eruption isn't likely for millions of years, a Rutgers University-led study suggests. The research is groundbreaking ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 30, 2017
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Hydrogen at elevated temperature creates high electrical conductivity in the Earth's mantle.
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Jul 26, 2017
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