Sedimentary rock cores from South Africa

Rock record illuminates oxygen history

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Tiny gas bubbles

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Illustration of the Cascadia subduction zone, a region where the patterns examined in this study play out. (Credit: Carie Frantz, Wikimedia Commons)

The ripple effect of small earthquakes near major faults

An illustration of the nano channels Texas Engineers developed for rare earth element extraction

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Aerial view of Ontake Volcano, Honshū Island, Japan. Image Credit: Dr. Koshun Yamaoka

Eruption loading: New approaches to earthquake monitoring at Ontake volcano, Japan

Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

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The Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park (Stock photo).

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A graphic showing the convective heat cycle (red arrows) that drives plate tectonic motion (black arrows) on Earth. Heat flows toward subduction zones through the uppermost mantle layer, the asthenosphere. A computer model from Rice University finds that the asthenosphere can locally drag plates along with it rather than acting exclusively as a brake on plate movements as had been widely believed. (Image courtesy of Surachit/Wikimedia Commons)

Crustal brines at an oceanic transform fault

Creative destruction: a thinner ocean plate sides under a continental plate, melting and recycling the ocean crust into the Earth’s interior and birthing volcanoes in this illustration of subduction, a consequence of modern plate tectonics. A new study reports evidence of a transition in multiple locations around the world, 3.8-3.6 billion years ago, from stable “protocrust” to pressures and processes that look a lot like modern subduction, suggesting a time when plates first got moving. Credit: Nikolas Midttun, CC-BY

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