China is set to venture where humanity has scarcely been before: beneath the Earth's crust, into its mantle. To achieve this ...

Scientists found a vast ocean 400 miles beneath Earth’s crust, stored in ringwoodite. It holds 3x more water than all surface ...

The African continent is undergoing a dramatic transformation as tectonic forces carve a path toward the formation of a new ocean ... continental crust is transitioning into oceanic crust in ...

New crust is continually being pushed away from ... In locations around the world, ocean crust subducts, or slides under, other pieces of Earth's crust. The boundary where the two plates meet ...

In the new work, the researchers considered various possible initial conditions for the area and ages of ocean crust, as well as crust destruction rates, calculating that the ancient seafloor ...

There seems to be too much of a radioactive element in rocks deep in the Pacific Ocean – how did it get there 10 million years ago?

proposes that the seabed's mountainous rifts are invisible scars where molten rock from the Earth's interior wells up periodically and spreads laterally to form new ocean crust, a process he calls ...

Where continents rift apart, new crust is formed from upwelling magma. Eventually, a new ocean basin forms. In this web focus we present opinion pieces, along with research and overview articles ...

Due to the close proximity of the Indian Ocean, it’s likely that the basin would flood which ultimately could lead to the birth of a new ocean ... can see that oceanic crust is starting to ...

at a mid-ocean ridge where vast amounts of magma rush to the surface and form new oceanic crust. As this magma migrates towards Earth’s surface, it cools down and new minerals begin to form.

Drewitt, J. W. E., Walter, M. J., Zhang, H., McMahon, S. C., Edwards, D., Heinen, B. J., Lord, O. T., Anzellini, S., & Kleppe, A. K. (2019). The fate of carbonate in ...