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The team's experiments compared carbon's compatibility with the silicates that comprise the Earth's mantle (outer circle) to its compatibility with the iron that comprises the planet's core (inner circle) while under conditions mimicking the Earth's interior during its formative period. They found that more carbon would have stayed in the mantle than previously thought. Credit: Rebecca Fischer, Elizabeth Cottrell and Marion Le Voyer, Kanani Lee, and the late Erik Hauri.

Most of Earth’s carbon was hidden in the core during its formative years

Geology Page - April 2, 2020

Photomicrographs showing anorthosites with 'correct' and 'wrong' proportions of chromite from the Bushveld Complex, South Africa. Credit: Wits University

Researchers unravel the mystery of non-cotectic magmatic rocks

Left: This is a digitalized 3D natural rock, Center: Spheres cloud representing pore topological features, Right: Persistence diagram.

Novel method for investigating pore geometry in rocks

Researcher unearths hottest rock on record

For under-Earth exploration, engineers deepen understanding of rock stress

Hundred-year-old law on fluid flow overturned by new research

Geology Page - July 17, 2017

How X-rays helped to solve mystery of floating rocks

Geology Page - May 23, 2017

Rock samples indicate water is key ingredient for crust formation

Geology Page - May 1, 2017

Earth Sciences student research on metamorphic rock in North China

Geology Page - October 4, 2016

Between a rock and a hard place: Biologists unearth sandstone-excavating bees

Geology Page - September 15, 2016

Amazing Agate Photos

Geology Page - September 10, 2016

Mars Rover Views Spectacular Layered Rock Formations

Geology Page - September 10, 2016

Scientists study how to print rocks in 3-D

Geology Page - August 10, 2016

Oldest rocks in Australia unlock secrets of the atmosphere

Geology Page - June 27, 2016

Turning CO2 into rock

Geology Page - June 10, 2016

Studying life on the rocks

Geology Page - June 1, 2016

Methane-producing microbes in California rocks

Geology Page - May 25, 2016

$Barium leaches directly from fracked rocks$

Barium leaches directly from fracked rocks

Geology Page - May 25, 2016

Is old rock really as “solid as a rock”

Geology Page - September 8, 2015

Research redefines the properties of faults when rock melts

Geology Page - July 1, 2015

Discovery of new rock property

Geology Page - June 10, 2015

Ancient rocks show life could have flourished on Earth 3.2 billion...

Geology Page - February 17, 2015

How ionic: Scaffolding is in charge of calcium carbonate crystals

Geology Page - January 27, 2015

Isotopic memory of atmospheric persistence

Geology Page - January 15, 2015

Rock art draws scientists to ancient lakes

Geology Page - January 10, 2015

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Map of seismic sensors (green triangles) around the epicenter (red star) of one of the earthquakes near the city of Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture. Credit: 2019 Satoshi Ide

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