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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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 ...
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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How do you make half the mass of two continents disappear? To answer that question, you first need to discover that it's missing.
Earth Sciences
Oct 5, 2016
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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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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.
Earth Sciences
Nov 7, 2023
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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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The collision between the Indian and Eurasian plates resulted in the formation of the Tianshan Tectonic Belt; however, the formation mechanism of Tianshan and the construction of a dynamic model explaining it remain to be ...
Earth Sciences
May 17, 2021
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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 ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 3, 2020
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A collaborative research team from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and China Geological Survey (CGS) have succeeded in obtaining a high-resolution 3-D resistivity ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 29, 2020
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