Geochemists Suggest That Earth’s Mantle Varies in Composition
New research by Brown University geochemists provides new insights on the scale at which Earth’s mantle varies in chemical composition. The findings could help scientists…
New research by Brown University geochemists provides new insights on the scale at which Earth’s mantle varies in chemical composition. The findings could help scientists…
New research from the University of Pennsylvania gives scientists a better idea of olivine’s strength, with implications for how tectonic plates form and move. No…
New research from MIT reveals that ancient Earth harbored higher mantle temperatures, which were much more efficient at drawing down pieces of the planet’s crust….
Using land-based seismic stations, researchers from Yale University found that part of the Nazca Plate weakened and deformed as it bent and slid under the…
Geophysicists from Yale University reveal that the combination of crustal plugs with weakening causes abrupt slab detachment in a few million years, which can account…
New research from the University of Sydney is shedding light on what set the Earth’s massive tectonic plates in motion, suggesting that it was triggered…
Newly published research from Yale University and Université de Lyon in France shows how and when Earth developed its rigid tectonic plates and why Venus…
On April 11th, 2012 a pair of massive earthquakes rocked the Indian Ocean. Scientists think that these may be the latest step in the formation…
While analyzing roughly 100 satellite images from NASA’s THEMIS spacecraft and the HIRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, UCLA scientist An Yin discovered that…
A new study from the Australian National University examines defects in rocks found below the earth’s surface in an attempt to better understand how seismic…
Newly published research shows that the growth rate of the Earth’s continental crust has decreased significantly over the last three billion years, leaving researchers to…