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The two accumulation phases of the Mediterranean salt layer during the Messinian Salinity Crisis. In the first phase, salt accumulated in a Mediterranean Basin filled with brine; in the second phase, salt accumulated in a Mediterranean completely isolated from the Atlantic Ocean, as a result of the significant drop in sea level in the western and eastern Mediterranean sub-basins. © Giovanni Aloisi

How 70% of the Mediterranean Sea was lost 5.5 million years ago

November 27, 2024

Scientific drilling at Wadi Manasah to throw light on oceanic plates

Plate tectonics without jerking

Massive Ancient Tectonic Slab Found Below the Indian Ocean

Faults control the amount of water flowing into the Earth during continental breakup

Activity on seafloor linked to icy ebb and flow on surface

January 29, 2016

New Seafloor Map Helps Scientists Find New Features

January 14, 2016

The floor of the ocean comes into better focus

January 9, 2016

How Earth’s Pacific plates collapsed

November 25, 2015

Mariana Trench “Deepest Part of the Ocean”

March 26, 2015

Heating Things Up: What Drives Elevation Along Mid-Ocean Ridges?

April 9, 2014

What sculpted Africa’s margin?

March 1, 2014

Rocky Mountains Originated from Previously Unknown Oceanic Plate

April 4, 2013

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Big, shape-shifting animals from the dawn of time

July 10, 2017

Dimitri Laurent explores a typical gallery in the Nébélé Cave, which was formed by sulfuric acid speleogenesis. You can see a deep notch that indicates the former presence of a river, and sodium sulfate on the left that is produced from weathering by sulfuric acid. Credit: Christophe Durlet

Unearthing the sources of cave-forming sulfuric acid

January 27, 2023

Modern microbial ecosystems provide window to early life on Earth

February 5, 2016

When carbon emissions pass a critical threshold, it can trigger a spike-like reflex in the carbon cycle, in the form of severe ocean acidification that lasts for 10,000 years, according to a new MIT study.

Breaching a ‘carbon threshold’ could lead to mass extinction

July 16, 2019

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CHW 189 from the private collection of Herman Winkelhorst (Netherlands). The neck of the animal is excellently preserved, but the rest is not. One possible explanation may be that this is the result of uneven colonization of the carcass by microorganisms and algae, which created a protective layer especially around the neck

Fossil deposit is much richer than expected

Rock layers preserve record of ancient sea tides near Blythe, California

These are worm tunnels (labelled) visible in small section of rock.

500-million-year old worm ‘superhighway’ discovered in Canada