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A 3D computer model of the asthenosphere by Rice University geophysicists finds that the convective cycling and pressure-driven flow can sometimes cause the asthenosphere to move even faster than the tectonic plates riding atop it.

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Flow in the asthenosphere drags tectonic plates along

Geology Page - May 29, 2018

Localization and geometry of the "Unit 2" corresponding to the sediment body originated by the Zanclean mega flood.

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Scientists find new evidences of the megaflood that ended the Messinian Salinity Crisis in the eastern Mediterranean

the central range of Taiwan

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Mountain erosion may add CO2 to the atmosphere

The Pinnacles of Gunung Mulu in Borneo

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New source of global nitrogen discovered

A sample of 2-billion-year-old salt (pink-white recrystallized halite) with embedded fragments of calcium sulfate from a geological drill core in Russian Karelia.

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Two-billion-year-old salt rock reveals rise of oxygen in ancient atmosphere

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Primordial oceans had oxygen 250 million years before the atmosphere

Geology Page - January 25, 2018

Rock layers in the Pongola Basin, South Africa.

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World’s oldest known oxygen oasis discovered

Geology Page - January 19, 2018

Atmosphere

Changes in Earth’s crust caused oxygen to fill the atmosphere

Geology Page - September 20, 2017

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Early Earth had a hazy, methane-filled atmosphere

Geology Page - March 14, 2017

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Study opens new questions on how the atmosphere and oceans formed

Geology Page - March 1, 2017

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Fossil fuel formation: Key to atmosphere’s oxygen?

Geology Page - December 31, 2016

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Earth’s ‘technosphere’ now weighs 30 trillion tons

Geology Page - December 2, 2016

Atmosphere

Scientists probe underground depths of Earth’s carbon cycle

Geology Page - November 9, 2016

Atmosphere

Pollution emitted near equator has biggest impact on global ozone

Geology Page - November 7, 2016

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Megadrought risks in southwest U.S. soar as atmosphere warms

Geology Page - October 10, 2016

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Ice cores reveal a slow decline in atmospheric oxygen over the...

Geology Page - October 3, 2016

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Soil will absorb less atmospheric carbon than expected this century, study...

Geology Page - September 23, 2016

Atmosphere

Humble moss helped create our oxygen-rich atmosphere

Geology Page - August 16, 2016

Atmosphere

Buried oxygen rose to the occasion as Earth’s early atmosphere formed

Geology Page - August 2, 2016

Atmosphere

Oldest rocks in Australia unlock secrets of the atmosphere

Geology Page - June 27, 2016

Atmosphere

Oxygen atmosphere recipe = tectonics + continents + life

Geology Page - May 17, 2016

Atmosphere

Study pinpoints timing of oxygen’s first appearance in Earth’s atmosphere

Geology Page - May 16, 2016

Atmosphere

Cosmic dust reveals Earth’s ancient atmosphere

Geology Page - May 12, 2016

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Early Earth’s air weighed less than half of today’s atmosphere

Geology Page - May 10, 2016

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Insights into the origins of sodium and other metallic layers in...

Geology Page - December 29, 2015

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