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New Study Helps Pinpoint When Earth's Plate Subduction Began

Dec. 9, 2020 — Plate subduction could have started 3.75 billion years ago, reshaping Earth's surface and setting the stage for a planet hospitable to ...

Newly Discovered Greenland Plume Drives Thermal Activities in the Arctic

Dec. 7, 2020 — A team of researchers understands more about the melting of the Greenland ice sheet. They discovered a flow of hot rocks, known as a mantle plume, rising from the core-mantle boundary beneath central ...

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Researchers Uncover Key Clues About the Solar System's History

Dec. 4, 2020 — Researchers have used magnetism to determine, for the first time, when asteroids that are rich in water and amino acids first arrived in the inner ...

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Crystals May Help Reveal Hidden Kilauea Volcano Behavior

Dec. 4, 2020 — Researchers used millimeter-sized crystals from the 1959 eruption of Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano to test models that offer insights about flow conditions prior to and during ...

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Pollution from Cooking Remains in Atmosphere for Longer

Dec. 8, 2020 — Particulate emissions from cooking stay in the atmosphere for longer than previously thought, making a prolonged contribution to poor air quality and human health, according to a new ...

Continents Prone to Destruction in Their Infancy, Study Finds

Dec. 2, 2020 — Geologists have shed new light on the early history of the Earth through their discovery that continents were weak and prone to destruction in their ...

Researchers Discover Life in Deep Ocean Sediments at or Above Water's Boiling Point

Dec. 3, 2020 — Biologists found single-celled organisms living in sediments 1180 meters beneath the ocean at temperatures of 120 degrees ...

Cluster of Alaskan Islands Could Be Single, Interconnected Giant Volcano

Dec. 3, 2020 — A small group of volcanic islands in Alaska's Aleutian chain might be part of a single, undiscovered giant volcano, say scientists. If the researchers' suspicions are correct, the newfound volcanic ...

What Will the Climate Be Like When Earth's Next Supercontinent Forms?

Dec. 1, 2020 — In roughly 200 million years, the continents will once again unite into a supercontinent. A new study explores how the next Pangea could affect the global ...

Geoscientists Use Zircon to Trace Origin of Earth's Continents

Dec. 1, 2020 — Geoscientists have long known that some parts of the continents formed in the Earth's deep past, but the speed in which land rose above global seas -- and the exact shapes that land masses formed -- ...

Seismic Activity of New Zealand's Alpine Fault More Complex Than Suspected

Dec. 1, 2020 — New evidence of a 19th century earthquake on New Zealand's Alpine fault suggests that in at least one portion of the fault, smaller earthquakes may occur in between such large rupture ...

Transportation of Water Into the Deep Earth by Al-Phase D

Dec. 1, 2020 — Researchers have recently measured the propagation speed of ultrasonic waves in an aluminum-rich hydrous mineral called Al-phase D at pressure conditions relevant to the Earth's deep mantle. Their ...

Engineers Combine Light and Sound to See Underwater

Nov. 30, 2020 — Engineers have developed an airborne method for imaging underwater objects by combining light and sound to break through the seemingly impassable barrier at the interface of air and ...

How Stable Is the Antarctic Ice Sheet?

Nov. 30, 2020 — As temperatures rise due to climate change, the melting of polar ice sheets is accelerating. An international team of scientists has now examined the dynamics of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet more ...