Is planet Earth young or old?
Credit: World Scientific The Age of the Earth -- A Physicist's Odyssey spells out how the age of our planet has ...
Tag: Plate Tectonics
New study takes the pulse of a sleeping supervolcano
Credit: Osvaldo González-Maurel Under the volcanoes in the Andes where Chile, Argentina and Bolivia meet, there is a gigantic reservoir ...
Seismic map of North America reveals geologic clues, earthquake hazards
Credit: Jens-Erik Lund Snee and Mark Zoback How do mountains form? What forces are needed to carve out a basin? ...
Stanford study reveals a holistic way to measure the economic fallout from earthquakes
Stanford researchers have developed a way to quantify the economic toll that a major earthquake is likely to exact, and ...
Journey to the center of the Earth
First of its kind experiment uses diamond anvils to simulate the Earth's coreCredit: © 2020 Kelvinsong - CC BY-SA 3.0 ...
Discovery of life in solid rock deep beneath sea may inspire new search for life on Mars
Bacteria live in tiny clay-filled cracks in solid rock millions of years oldCredit: Caitlin Devor, University of Tokyo, CC BY ...
Most of Earth’s carbon was hidden in the core during its formative years
New work reveals how carbon behaved during Earth's violent formative periodCredit: Rebecca Fischer, Elizabeth Cottrell and Marion Le Voyer, Kanani ...
In Earth’s largest extinction, land animal die-offs began long before marine extinction
New dates for fossils indicate land animal turnover extended for hundreds of thousands of yearsCredit: Photo courtesy of John Geissman ...
Eclectic rocks influence earthquake types
Credit: IODP JRSO New Zealand's largest fault is a jumble of mixed-up rocks of all shapes, sizes, compositions and origins. ...
Shifts in deep geologic structure may have magnified great 2011 Japan tsunami
Where tectonic plates meet, a change in angleCredit: Adapted from Oryan and Buck, Nature Geoscience 2020 On March 11, 2011, ...
Researchers develop new explanation for destructive earthquake vibrations
Credit: Julia Carr PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Earthquakes produce seismic waves with a range of frequencies, from the long, rolling motions ...
Sinking sea mountains make and muffle earthquakes
Credit: Andrew Gase/National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Subduction zones -- places where one tectonic plate dives beneath another ...
The seismicity of Mars
Credit: NASA / JPL - Caltech On 26 November 2018, the NASA InSight lander successfully set down on Mars in ...
How earthquakes deform gravity
New algorithm raises hope for innovative earthquake early warning systemsCredit: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Vol 536, Zhang et al. ...
Geothermal energy: Drilling a 3,000 meters deep well
Researchers from the University of Geneva have studied the seismic activity recorded during the drilling of a geothermal well and ...
Montana State researcher earns Keck grant to link Yellowstone seismic, microbial activity
Credit: MSU photo by Kelly Gorham. BOZEMAN -- For over 100 years, scientists have studied the heat-loving microbial life in ...
Peeking at the plumbing of one of the Aleutian’s most-active volcanoes
A new approach to analyzing seismic data reveals deep vertical zones of low seismic velocity in the plumbing system underlying ...
Fed grant backs Rice earthquake research
Geologist Melodie French wins National Science Foundation CAREER AwardCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Jan. 31, 2020) - Rice University ...
Signals from inside the Earth: Borexino experiment releases new data on geoneutrinos
Credit: Copyright: Borexino Collaboration Scientists involved in the Borexino collaboration have presented new results for the measurement of neutrinos originating ...
New dinosaur discovered in China shows dinosaurs grew up differently from birds
San Diego Natural History Museum paleontologist describes a dinosaur that is new to science, offers view into dinosaur-bird evolutionCredit: Ashley ...
