When continents formed
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.
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News tagged with upper crust
A dessert-like desert: Californian lithosphere resembles crème brûlée
Decades after two large earthquakes rocked the Mojave Desert in California, the discovery of new post-earthquake displacement features has prompted KAUST researchers to update the existing model for this earthquake-prone ...
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Nov 27, 2020
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Rock samples indicate water is key ingredient for crust formation
By examining the cooling rate of rocks that formed more than 10 miles beneath the Earth's surface, scientists led by The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences have found that water probably penetrates ...
Earth Sciences
May 1, 2017
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Evaluating dual hydration of the oceanic lithosphere
A new study led by Dr. Jian Lin (Southern University of Science and Technology) and Dr. Fan Zhang (South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences) reexamines how the ocean's lithosphere operates.
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Nov 7, 2023
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The floor is lava: After 1.5 billion years in flux, here's how a new, stronger crust set the stage for life on Earth
Our planet is unique in the solar system. It's the only one with active plate tectonics, ocean basins, continents and, as far as we know, life. But Earth in its current form is 4.5 billion years in the making; it's starkly ...
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Dec 3, 2020
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Lab experiments offer credence to theory that subducted crust exists at the base of Earth's upper mantle
A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Japan has found evidence that offers credence to a theory that subducted crust exists at the base of Earth's upper mantle. In their paper published in the journal ...
Deep low-frequency earthquakes indicate migration of magmatic fluids beneath Laacher See
A German study shows that magma could rise from the upper mantle into the middle and upper crust beneath the Laacher See Volcano (Rhineland-Palatinate). This is the result of a study conducted by the Seismological Survey ...
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Jan 8, 2019
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Support for a 'jelly sandwich' model of the Tibetan Plateau
With an area of 2.5 million square kilometers and an altitude that can exceed 4,500 meters, the Tibetan Plateau is the largest and highest plateau on Earth. Although its formation over the past 65 million years is broadly ...
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Nov 1, 2021
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New toolkit aids discovery of mineral deposits crucial to 'green economy' transition
Scientists have developed a new toolkit for the discovery of mineral deposits crucial to our transition to a "green economy."
Earth Sciences
Mar 15, 2022
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Discovery challenges the recent re-interpretation of magma chambers
Professor Rais Latypov from the School of Geosciences at Wits University and his research team have found field evidence for the existence of a 5-km-thick totally molten chamber within the ancient crust of South Africa. This ...
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Sep 22, 2022
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