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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

Sound waves reveal enormous diamond cache deep in Earth’s interior

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Better model of water under extreme conditions could aid understanding of...

Earth's crust, mantle and outer core interactions.

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

Diamond crystal

Unique diamond impurities indicate water deep in Earth’s mantle

This illustration shows how the changes in the electromagnetic properties of xenon, iron, and nickel under these intense pressures allow for the formation of XeFe3 and XeNi3.

Do you know where your xenon is?

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)

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

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

Kaolinite sinks into the subduction zone with the oceanic plate.

Clay mineral waters Earth’s mantle from the inside

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...

Lithospheric-scale processes involved in the precursor stage of formation of the Deseado Massif auriferous province.

Plume-subduction interaction forms large auriferous provinces

Study sheds new light on earth’s evolution

Researcher unearths hottest rock on record

Scientists produce best estimate of Earth’s composition

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

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

Conductivity key to mapping water inside Earth

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

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

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