(PhysOrg.com) -- Small scale convection at the base of the Pacific plate has been simulated in a model of mantle plume dynamics, enabling reasearchers to explain the complex set of observations at the Hawaiian hotspot, according ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 29, 2011
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Diamonds that no-one ever sees can form deep in the Earth’s interior. This is due to the chemical conditions controlling the associated carbon cycle. Swiss researchers used laboratory experiments to show how this happens.
Earth Sciences
Apr 8, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In what can only be described as a mammoth undertaking, scientists, led by British co-chiefs, Dr Damon Teagle of the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, England and Dr Benoit Ildefonse from Montpellier ...
A new way to calculate the age of the Earth's crust has been developed by researchers from the University of Bristol and the University of St Andrews.
Earth Sciences
Jan 13, 2011
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While there continues to be considerable debate among geologists about the availability of oxygen in the Earth's mantle, recent discoveries by a University of Rhode Island scientist are bringing resolution to the question.
Earth Sciences
Dec 14, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Bristol reveal today in the journal Nature that they have developed a seismological 'speed gun' for the inside of the Earth. Using this technique they will be able to measure ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 27, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A Michigan Technological University researcher may have solved a long-standing mystery in earth science studies. In Siberia there exist stepped, large-scale basaltic formations known as “traps.” “Nobody ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 22, 2010
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Scientists have discovered a new window into the Earth's violent past. Geochemical evidence from volcanic rocks collected on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic suggests that beneath it lies a region of the Earth's mantle ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 11, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Banda arc - a gigantic 1,000km long, 180-degree curve in eastern Indonesia - has puzzled geologists for many years, with much debate and controversy surrounding its complex origin and evolution. A solution ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 26, 2010
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While prospectors and geologists have been successful in finding diamonds through diligent searching, one University of Houston professor and his team's work could help improve the odds by focusing future searches in particular ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 14, 2010
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