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STUDY PROPOSES LINK BETWEEN FORMATION OF SUPERCONTINENTS, STRENGTH OF OCEAN...
The Earth’s tides weren’t always as energetic as they are today. A new study suggests that when tectonic movement molds ocean basins into certain shapes, the tides grow much stronger. And when tectonic...
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Geoscientists suggest ‘snowball Earth’ resulted from plate tectonics
During its ‘snowball’ phase, the Earth may have resembled Enceladus, a moon of Saturn that is covered in snow and ice. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute About 700 million years ago,...
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Habitability of the young Earth could boost the chances of life elsewhere
An artist’s concept of the early Earth. While still fairly inhospitable compared to today’s standards, the early Earth may have had a more moderate climate and ocean temperature and pH than had been...
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New insight into Earth’s crust, mantle and outer core interactions
Earth’s crust, mantle and outer core interactions. Credit: Kay Lancaster, University of Liverpool A new study by the University of Liverpool, in collaboration with the Universities of Lancaster and...
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Better model of water under extreme conditions could aid understanding of...
Water under extreme pressure and temperatures displays odd properties, which were modeled by University of Chicago scientists. Credit: Peter Allen Deep inside the Earth exist pockets of water, but the...
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Intense conditions turn nitrogen metallic
Nitrogen is the dominant gas in Earth’s atmosphere, where it is most-commonly bonded with itself in diatomic N2 molecules. Credit: Illustration courtesy of Alexander Goncharov. New work from a team led...
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Geologists uncover new clues about largest mass extinction ever
Mantle xenoliths are rock sections of the lithosphere—a section of the planet located between the crust and the mantle—that get captured by passing magma and erupted to the surface during volcanic...
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Making Space Exploration Real – On Earth
This image of Earth taken by ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst from the International Space Station was shared on Alexander’s social media channels in June 2018. Credit: ESA/NASA–A. Gerst You are on a rock...
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ESA’S GRAVITY-MAPPER REVEALS RELICS OF ANCIENT CONTINENTS UNDER ANTARCTIC ICE
ESA’s GOCE mission will measure high-accuracy gravity gradients and provide global models of the Earth’s gravity field and of the geoid. Credit: ESA It was five years ago this month that ESA’s GOCE...
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Do microbes control the formation of giant copper deposits?
Las Cruces Mine, Spain. Photo courtesy Fernando Tornos. One of the major issues when studying ore deposits formed in surficial or near-surface environments is the relationship between ore-forming...
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