A research team led by Prof. Sun Weidong from the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS) and their collaborators from Curtin University and Geological Survey of Western Australia have reported ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 30, 2022
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The transition zone between the Earth's upper and lower mantle contains considerable quantities of water, according to an international study involving the Institute for Geosciences at Goethe University in Frankfurt. The ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 27, 2022
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An international research team has found that the first continents were not stable and were recycled in the interior of the Earth, in the mantle.
Planetary Sciences
Sep 20, 2022
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Earthquakes which occur at depths of several hundred kilometers in the mantle are called "deep-focus earthquakes". Such earthquakes occasionally result in serious disasters such as the 1994 Bolivian earthquake, which occurred ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 16, 2022
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Scientists have shed new light on the timing and likely cause of major volcanic events that occurred millions of years ago and caused such climatic and biological upheaval that they drove some of the most devastating extinction ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 9, 2022
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A planet's interior heat comes from two principal sources: leftover energy amassed from collisions between planetesimals during the accretion of the planet and the subsequent decay of radioactive elements embedded within ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 1, 2022
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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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A new study involving an international team of researchers has found that the evolution of land plants caused a sudden shift in the composition of Earth's continents.
Earth Sciences
Aug 30, 2022
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Closure of the Neo-Tethys Ocean and the subsequent formation of the Tibetan Plateau is one of the most significant tectonic events on Earth. How the Indian subcontinent drifted northward anomalously fast and collided with ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 26, 2022
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Earth is the only planet we know of with continents, the giant landmasses that provide homes to humankind and most of Earth's biomass.
Earth Sciences
Aug 11, 2022
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