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 ...
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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 ...
Rochester researchers unlock clues to a dramatic chapter of Earth’s geological history
Credit: Akshay Mehra / Princeton Grinder Lab photo Imagine Earth completely covered in ice. While it's hard to picture all ...
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 ...
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 ...
New hints of volcanism under the heart of northern Europe
Credit: Corné Kreemer / University of Nevada, Reno Scientists have discovered new evidence for active volcanism next door to some ...
Gabriel honored with Charles F. Richter Early Career Award
Credit: Alice-Agnes Gabriel Alice Gabriel has been honored with the Seismological Society of America's (SSA) 2020 Charles F. Richter Early ...
Can deep water masses in the Mediterranean cross the Sicily Strait?
Underwater frontier between Mediterranean basinsCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA The Sicily Strait, an underwater relief connecting the Italian island with the ...
Scientists decipher the role of carbon and the break-up of continents
UNM researcher Tobias Fischer part of international collaborationCredit: UNM University of New Mexico (UNM) Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, ...
Deep-sea study of the Earth’s crust receives $1.65 million NSERC-CREATE grant
Credit: GEOMAR To address the challenges of a dwindling global supply of energy and mineral resources, Professor Mark Hannington of ...
New model shows how diamond-carrying rocks formed in Northern Alberta
Credit: Jeffregy Gu and Yunfeng Chen A new study by University of Alberta geologists is proposing a new model for ...
Scientists discover new forms of feldspars
High-pressure experiments reveal unknown variants of common mineralCredit: Credit: DESY, Anna Pakhomova In high-pressure experiments, scientists have discovered new forms ...
Caves tell us that Australia’s mountains are still growing
Buchan Caves unlock technique for measuring uplift of mountainsCredit: John Engel Australia has often been unfairly portrayed as an old ...
New technique separates industrial noise from natural seismic signals
A transformative, cloud-computing approach to analyzing data helps researchers better understand seismic activityCredit: Los Alamos National Laboratory LOS ALAMOS, N.M., ...
Researchers reveal largest and hottest shield volcano on Earth
Credit: NOAA In a recently published study, researchers from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth ...
What’s Mars made of?
Researchers simulate the core of Mars to investigate its composition and originCredit: CC-0 Earth-based experiments on iron-sulfur alloys thought to ...
Growing mountains or shifting ground: What is going on in Earth’s inner core?
Credit: Graphic by Michael Vincent CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Exhaustive seismic data from repeating earthquakes and new data-processing methods have yielded ...
A tale of two kinds of volcanoes
Credit: Ms Therese van Wyk, University of Johannesburg At an idyllic island in the Mediterranean Sea, ocean covers up the ...
Fiber optics capture seismic signatures of the rose parade
Credit: Seismological Research Letters Yes, there's a prize for the most beautiful flower-filled float in the Rose Parade each year, ...
Bizarre 66 million-year-old fossil from Madagascar provides clues on early mammals
Adalatherium identified as part of enigmatic Southern Hemisphere mammalian group that lived at the time of dinosaursCredit: Image courtesy Denver ...