New clues to deep earthquake mystery
A new understanding of our planet's deepest earthquakes could help unravel one of the most mysterious geophysical processes on Earth.
Yale finds a (much) earlier birth date for tectonic plates
Yale geophysicists reported that Earth's ever-shifting, an underground network of tectonic plates was firmly in place more than 4 billion years ago -- at least a billion years earlier than scientists generally thought.
The asteroid that killed the Dinosaurs stuck earth at ‘deadliest possible’ angle
Simulations to recreate the extinction-level event that killed 75% of life on Earth 66 million years ago, has shown the angle the asteroid struck was at 60 degrees.
Using Drones to Monitor Explosive Volcanoes
Due to the difficult accessibility and the high risk of collapse or explosion, the imaging of active volcanoes has so far been a great challenge in volcanology.
The lower mantle can be oxidized in the presence of water
If we took a journey from Earth's surface to the center, the midway point locates roughly at 1900 km depth in the lower mantle.
The story of Earth’s evolution is being deciphered
Around 1800 miles beneath the Earth’s surfaces is a magmatic region between the solid silicate-based mantle and molten iron-rich core: The core-mantle boundary.
Mars – The planet where mud erupts and flows
Mars today has no active volcanoes, much of the heat stored inside the planet has been lost over millions of years creating a thick outer crust preventing molten rock reaching the surface.
The largest and hottest shield volcano on Earth
A team from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology revealed the largest and hottest shield volcano on Earth.
Boring Vs Explosions – a Tale of Two Kinds of Volcanoes
At an idyllic island in the Mediterranean Sea, ocean covers up the site of a vast volcanic explosion from 3200 years ago.
The ancient volcano that’s 81 miles from London
Just 81 miles from London is the Village of Warboys in the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire whose history dates back from the Iron Age. The geological history, however, goes back over 300 million years to a period when Warboys was the epicentre of volcanic activity.
1 billion years of missing history may finally be answered
The rock strata is a definitive timeline that records the geological history of our planet, however, there is a mystery that has confounded geologists for over a century - 1 billion years are missing.
Catastrophic outburst floods carved Greenland’s ‘Grand Canyon’
Buried a mile beneath Greenland's thick ice sheet is a network of canyons so deep and long that the largest of these has been called Greenland's "Grand Canyon."
Scientists find evidence of how platinum metals form under 60 million-year-old Scottish volcano
Research carried out by scientists at Keele University, the University of Manchester and University College Dublin has shed new light on how precious metals are concentrated in igneous rocks.
New study finds connection between fault roughness and the magnitude of earthquakes
A new study led by McGill University has found that tectonic plates beneath the Earth's surface can show varying degrees of roughness and could help explain why certain earthquakes are stronger than others.
The sleeping giant – supervolcano of the Andes
Under the volcanoes in the Andes where Chile, Argentina and Bolivia meet, there is a gigantic reservoir of molten magma.
