Research from the University of Texas at Arlington and the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology suggests that hydrogen, oxygen, water and carbon dioxide are being generated in the earth's mantle hundreds of kilometers below ...
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Oct 3, 2017
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Scientists at ANU have produced the best estimate of Earth's elemental composition which will help them understand how the Earth formed 4.6 billion years ago.
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Sep 18, 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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(Phys.org)—A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Japan and Germany has found evidence that suggests the middle of Earth's mantle holds as much water as the planet's oceans. In their paper published ...
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 ...
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May 1, 2017
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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 temperature of Earth's interior affects everything from the movement of tectonic plates to the formation of the planet.
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Mar 2, 2017
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Geophysicists at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at the Tokyo Institute of Technology report in Nature Geoscience a new model for the existence of a deep mantle conveyor belt system that may have operated inside the ...
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Feb 28, 2017
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New research published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters describes how scientists have used the world's largest array of seismic sensors to map a deep-Earth area of melting carbon covering 1.8 million square kilometres. ...
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Feb 13, 2017
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Earth's water may have originally been formed by chemical reactions deep within the planet's mantle, according to research led by University College Dublin.
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Feb 3, 2017
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