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A mineral map of a cumulate mineral sample.

How Earth’s mantle is like a Jackson Pollock painting

Geology Page - May 20, 2019

Snapshots of numerical modeling of the moon’s formation by a giant impact. The central part of the image is a proto-Earth; red points indicate materials from the ocean of magma in a proto-Earth; blue points indicate the impactor materials.

Magma is the key to the moon’s makeup

Earth

Better model of water under extreme conditions could aid understanding of Earth’s mantle

Earth's crust, mantle and outer core interactions.

New insight into Earth’s crust, mantle and outer core interactions

Earth experienced multiple large impacts; the high-pressure and -temperature conditions caused pockets of core and mantle partitioning that persist as chemically distinct today.

Earth’s core and mantle separated in a disorderly fashion

New research from The University of Texas at Austin adds evidence to a theory that claims the metallic cores

Trickle-down is the solution (to the planetary core formation problem)

Geology Page - December 5, 2017

The mantle beneath Earth's mid-oceanic ridges contains heterogeneous blobs of material

Research reveals the scale at which Earth’s mantle composition varies

Geology Page - November 25, 2017

Kaolinite sinks into the subduction zone with the oceanic plate.

Clay mineral waters Earth’s mantle from the inside

Geology Page - November 21, 2017

An illustration from the paper showing oxygen and hydrogen cycling in the deep Earth

When water met iron deep inside the Earth, did it create...

Geology Page - November 14, 2017

Study sheds new light on earth’s evolution

Geology Page - October 4, 2017

Researcher unearths hottest rock on record

Geology Page - September 29, 2017

Measuring the strength of olivine, the most abundant mineral in the...

Geology Page - September 15, 2017

Geoscientists find explanation for puzzling pockets of rock deep in Earth’s...

Geology Page - August 2, 2017

Conductivity key to mapping water inside Earth

Geology Page - July 26, 2017

Scientists shed light on carbon’s descent into the deep Earth

Geology Page - July 19, 2017

Scientists discover why rocks flow slowly in Earth’s middle mantle

Geology Page - June 5, 2017

Stirring things up in the Earth’s mantle

Geology Page - May 12, 2017

Changes in tectonic activity may have shaped composition of Panama Canal...

Geology Page - May 12, 2017

Early organic carbon got deep burial in mantle

Geology Page - April 25, 2017

‘Nesting doll’ minerals offer clues to Earth’s mantle dynamics

Geology Page - April 9, 2017

Melting temperature of Earth’s mantle depends on water

Geology Page - March 6, 2017

Drawn from the Deep: Earth’s Primordial Reservoir Older Than the Moon

Geology Page - February 7, 2017

Geologists find key indicator of carbon sources in Earth’s mantle

Geology Page - November 10, 2016

Researchers find evidence for a cold, serpentinized mantle wedge beneath Mt....

Geology Page - November 3, 2016

Greenland ice is melting 7 percent faster than previously thought

Geology Page - September 22, 2016

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More than 100 years of flooding and erosion in one event

March 27, 2017

Studying the recovery of rare earth elements from coal mining waste

December 19, 2015

Risk of tsunamis in Mediterranean Sea has been overstated

October 12, 2017

Shape of bird wings depends on ancestors more than flight style

November 5, 2015

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