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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...

November 27, 2024

The 37 kiloton 'Priscilla' nuclear test, detonated at the Nevada Test Site in 1957. Credit: US Department of Energy

Radioactive carbon from nuclear bomb tests found in deep ocean trenches

May 9, 2019

Using magnetic data: Researcher uncovers 340 million year-old oceanic crust in...

August 16, 2016

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

Mariana Trench “Deepest Part of the Ocean”

March 26, 2015

New Species Discovered Beneath Ocean Crust

February 15, 2015

Ice ages made Earth’s ocean crust thicker

February 7, 2015

New sulfate-breathing species discovered beneath ocean crust

January 15, 2015

What lies beneath modern New England? Mountain-building and the end of...

April 27, 2014

Breathing Underwater: Evidence of Microscopic Life in Oceanic Crust

September 29, 2013

Oceanic Crust Breakthrough: Solving a Magma Mystery

January 3, 2013

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The output of the proposed methodology, which is a two-part optimization process that refines a common technique used to image salt bodies. The black area represents the salt region. Credit: Mahesh Kalita

Solving the salt problem for seismic imaging

July 22, 2019

Journey to the center of the Earth

October 17, 2014

Rice University scientists studied how the density of microseismicity, or small tremors, related to the seismic structure of the Pacific Northwest in the United States. Red lines in the graphic at left correspond to cross-sections from northern Washington (top), central Oregon (middle), and northern California (bottom).

Relationship between tremors, water at the Cascadia margin

October 26, 2018

Normal and malformed spores from East Greenland. Credit: John Marshall

Erosion of ozone layer responsible for mass extinction event

May 28, 2020

Nepal quake could have been much worse: Here’s why

Research Into New Metamaterial That Provides Earthquake Protection

Are ants the answer to carbon dioxide sequestration?

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