How stony-iron meteorites form
SAPHiR multi-anvil press solves mystery of the solar systemCredit: Dr. Nicolas P. Walte / TUM Meteorites give us insight into ...
Tag: Geophysics
Massive seagrass die-off leads to widespread erosion in a California estuary
Following an unprecedented estuary-wide collapse of the seagrasses in Morro Bay, scientists documented extensive erosion and geomorphological changes, which may ...
Scientists reveal an explosive secret hidden beneath seemingly trustworthy volcanoes
Credit: Gabriel Salazar, La Pinta Yacht Expedition. An international team of volcanologists working on remote islands in the Galápagos Archipelago ...
X-rays recount origin of oddball meteorites
Berkeley Lab scientists contribute to study exploring magnetization preserved for billions of years in meteorite samplesCredit: Carl Agee/Institute of Meteoritics, ...
Lead white pigments on Andean drinking vessels provide new historical context
Isotope analysis suggest clues to the manufacture and distribution of qerosCredit: Alyson Thibodeau (Carlisle, Pa.) - Researchers studying lead white ...
Plato was right. Earth is made, on average, of cubes
The ancient Greek philosopher was on to something, researchers foundCredit: Courtesy of Gablor Domokos and Douglas Jerolmack Plato, the Greek ...
New method solves old mystery: Hafnium isotopes clinch origin of high-quality Roman glass
An international team of researchers have found a way to determine the origin of colourless glass from the Roman period. ...
Cause of abnormal groundwater rise after large earthquake
How a mountain aquifer affected the local hydrological environment after a large earthquakePrior to the earthquake, Kumamoto City area groundwater ...
New materials of perovskite challenge the chemical intuition
Credit: Changqing Jin, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences High-pressure materials science has taken off over the last couple ...
Geologists identify deep-earth structures that may signal hidden metal lodes
Finding new giant copper, lead, zinc deposits could fuel green infrastructureCredit: Adapted from Hoggard et al., Nature Geoscience, 2020 If ...
The magnetic history of ice
The findings could help us understand the history of other bodies in our solar systemCredit: Weizmann Institute of Science The ...
Precise measurement of liquid iron density under extreme conditions
A big step forward in estimating the chemical composition of the Earth's coreCredit: Assistant Professor Yoichi Nakajima Using the large ...
Scientists modelled natural rock arcades
Credit: Pavel Odinev / Skoltech Researchers from Russia and the Czech Republic performed numerical modelling of natural rock arcades using ...
Geologists shed light on the tibetan plateau origin puzzle: an open-and-shut perspective
Scientists suggest a new 'opening-closing' tectonic theory to explain the origin of the Tibetan PlateauCredit: Earth Science Frontiers Earth's geographical ...
Leipzig research balloon becomes platform for Arctic atmosphere measurements in MOSAiC
Researchers from TROPOS and the University of Leipzig make a major contribution to the success of the largest Arctic expeditionCredit: ...
Geoscientists create deeper look at processes below Earth’s surface with 3D images
Credit: University of Texas at Dallas Geoscientists at The University of Texas at Dallas recently used massive amounts of earthquake ...
Radioactive cloud over Europe had civilian background
Isotope measurements on air filters: researchers investigated undeclared nuclear release / Study in "Nature Communications"Credit: Dorian Zok/LUH A mysterious cloud ...
Which factors control the height of mountains?
A study in Nature with a surprising finding: It is not erosionCredit: NASA; Astronaut photograph ISS059-E-517 Which forces and mechanisms ...
Virginia Tech research provides new explanation for neutrino anomalies in Antarctica
Scientists remain perplexed by the activity, with some 40 papers so far giving wildly different answersCredit: Image courtesy Ian Shoemaker. ...
Study proves that magma chambers can be totally molten
The study challenges a recently-emerged paradigm that magma chambers are huge masses of crystals with just a very small amount ...
