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Seismic ‘CT scans’ reveal deep earth dynamics
A new look 100 miles beneath a massive tectonic plate as it dives under North America has helped clarify the subduction process that generates...
‘False’ biosignatures may complicate search for ancient life on Earth, other...
Self-assembling carbon microstructures created in a lab by University of Colorado Boulder researchers could provide new clues -- and new cautions -- in efforts...
Plate Tectonics
Revealing Earth’s early secrets
Addressing fundamental unknowns about the earliest history of Earth's crust, scientists have precisely dated the world's oldest rock unit at 4.02 billion years old....
Satellite radar image analysis reveals that rifting in Iceland exhibits simultaneous...
The separation of tectonic plates takes place over millions of years, often deep on the ocean floor. Geologists rarely get a chance to study...
Volcanoes
A look inside volcanic flows
An empty boiler house and 1.5 tons of thick volcanic ash have given researchers at New Zealand's Massey University and Georgia Tech a look...
Earthquake
Research finds way to make fracking safer
Study finds that wastewater injections cause man-made earthquakes, but the risk can be reduced through monitoring
Injecting wastewater deep underground as a byproduct of oil...
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Earthquakes, ‘Mars-quakes,’ and the possibility of life
A new study shows that rocks formed by the grinding together of other rocks during earthquakes are rich in trapped hydrogen -- a finding...
Mars Rover Views Spectacular Layered Rock Formations
The layered geologic past of Mars is revealed in stunning detail in new color images returned by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, which is currently...
Moon
Moon is proto-Earth’s mantle, relocated
Measurements of an element in Earth and Moon rocks have just disproved the leading hypotheses for the origin of the Moon.
Tiny differences in the...
Cataclysm at Meteor Crater: Crystal sheds light on Earth, moon, Mars
In molten sandstone extracted by prospectors a century ago, an international team of scientists has discovered microscopic crystals telling of unimaginable pressures and temperatures...
