Earth recycles ocean floor into diamonds
Credit: Stephen Durham The diamond on your finger is most likely made of recycled seabed cooked deep in the Earth. ...
Tag: Plate Tectonics
Study of northern Alaska could rewrite Arctic history
Updates to the geological record connect to the region's resourcesCredit: Justin V. Strauss HANOVER, N.H. - May 28, 2019 - ...
Study uncovers surprising melting patterns beneath Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf
Ancient geologic structures may play future roleCredit: Susan Howard The ROSETTA-Ice project, a three-year, multi-institutional data collection survey of Antarctic ...
When it comes to planetary habitability, it’s what’s inside that counts
Can the geologic and dynamic features that make our home planet habitable can be produced on planets with different compositions?Credit: ...
Princeton geoscientists find new fallout from ‘the collision that changed the world’
A Princeton-led research team has created an unprecedented record of ocean nitrogen and oxygen levels from 70 million years ago ...
Studies link earthquakes to fracking in the central and eastern US
Small earthquakes in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Oklahoma and Texas can be linked to hydraulic fracturing wells in those regions, ...
Diamonds reveal how continents are stabilized, key to Earth’s habitability
The longevity of Earth's continents in the face of destructive tectonic activity is an essential geologic backdrop for the emergence ...
Eclogitic diamonds formed from oceanic crust, study shows
Diamonds in eclogite source carbon from oceanic crust, not sediment Eclogitic diamonds formed in Earth's mantle originate from oceanic crust, ...
Major deep carbon sink linked to microbes found near volcano chains
Rutgers and other scientists show how microbes help store millions of tons of carbon dioxideCredit: Peter Barry Up to about ...
Reinforced concrete wall damage may be larger than expected in major Seattle quake
Using ground motions generated for a range of simulated magnitude 9 earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest, researchers are testing how ...
Scientists identify almost 2 million previously ‘hidden’ earthquakes
A closer look at seismic data from 2008-17 expands Southern California's earthquake catalog by a factor of 10Credit: Caltech Pouring ...
Massive earthquakes provide new insight into deep Earth
Credit: Wenyuan Fan TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- In the waning months of 2018, two of the mightiest deep earthquakes ever recorded ...
Earth’s deep mantle flows dynamically
As ancient ocean floors plunge over 1,000 km into the Earth's deep interior, they cause hot rock in the lower ...
Scientists argue for more comprehensive studies of Cascade volcanoes
Credit: Jeff Basinger CORVALLIS, Ore. - The string of volcanoes in the Cascades Arc, ranging from California's Mt. Lassen in ...
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