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How Earth’s mantle is like a Jackson Pollock painting
In countless grade-school science textbooks, the Earth's mantle is a yellow-to-orange gradient, a nebulously defined layer between the crust and the core.
To geologists, the...
From Earth’s deep mantle, scientists find a new way volcanoes form
Far below Bermuda's pink sand beaches and turquoise tides, geoscientists have discovered the first direct evidence that material from deep within Earth's mantle transition...
Plate Tectonics
Monitoring Earth’s shifting land
The monitoring of land subsidence is of vital importance for low-lying countries, but also areas which are prone to peculiar ground instability.
Land subsidence is...
How life on Earth affected its inner workings
It is well known that life on Earth and the geology of the planet are intertwined, but a new study provides fresh evidence for...
Volcanoes
How Earth’s mantle is like a Jackson Pollock painting
In countless grade-school science textbooks, the Earth's mantle is a yellow-to-orange gradient, a nebulously defined layer between the crust and the core.
To geologists, the...
Earthquake
Earthquakes are triggered well beyond fluid injection zones
Using data from field experiments and modeling of ground faults, researchers at Tufts University have discovered that the practice of subsurface fluid injection used...
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Mars
NASA’s InSight detects first likely ‘quake’ on Mars
NASA's Mars InSight lander has measured and recorded for the first time ever a likely "marsquake."
The faint seismic signal, detected by the lander's Seismic...
Scientists find likely source of methane on Mars
The mystery of methane on Mars may finally be solved as scientists Monday confirmed the presence of the life-indicating gas on the Red Planet...
Moon
Magma is the key to the moon’s makeup
For more than a century, scientists have squabbled over how Earth's moon formed. But researchers at Yale and in Japan say they may have...
Thank the moon for Earth’s lengthening day
For anyone who has ever wished there were more hours in the day, geoscientists have some good news: Days on Earth are getting longer.
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