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More ‘reactive’ land surfaces cooled the Earth down
There have been long periods of cooling in Earth's history. Temperatures had already fallen for more than 10 million years before the last ice...
Building blocks of the Earth
Chemical analyses of meteorites allow for a better estimation of the chemical composition of the Earth and its potential building blocks. That is the...
Plate Tectonics
Curved slickenlines preserve the direction of rupture propagation
Slip-parallel grooves (striations) on fault surfaces are considered a robust indicator of fault slip direction, yet their potential for recording aspects of earthquake rupture...
New model suggests lost continents for early Earth
A new radioactivity model of Earth's ancient rocks calls into question current models for the formation of Earth's continental crust, suggesting continents may have...
Volcanoes
New clues to the origin of massive underwater volcano, Tamu Massif
The discovery of Tamu Massif, a gigantic volcano located about 1,000 miles east of Japan, made big news in 2013 when researchers reported it...
Earthquake
Istanbul: Seafloor study proves earthquake risk for the first time
Collapsed houses, destroyed port facilities and thousands of victims -- on 22 May 1766 an earthquake of approximately 7.5 magnitude units and a subsequent...
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Mars
A material way to make Mars habitable
People have long dreamed of re-shaping the Martian climate to make it livable for humans. Carl Sagan was the first outside of the realm...
Ice-squeezed aquifers might create marsquakes
As the Mars InSight lander begins listening to the interior of Mars, some scientists are already proposing that some marsquakes could be signals of...
Moon
Formation of the moon brought water to Earth
The Earth is unique in our solar system: It is the only terrestrial planet with a large amount of water and a relatively large...
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...
