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Due to the radiative thermal conductivity of the mineral olivine, only oceanic plates over 60 million years old and ...
Recent research conducted by an international team of scientists from Utrecht University, the UK, and the US has resulted in ...
Geologists have uncovered the remains of a massive tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean, a plate that had been hidden for ...
Sea level on Earth has been rising and falling ever since there was water on the planet. Scientists were already able to use ...
Chemical fingerprints from volcanic rock offer hints of what’s happening in the mantle below the area where three rift zones ...
A plume of molten rock rising from the depths of the Earth in heartbeat-like pulses is slowly tearing Africa apart—and will ...
Surprisingly, geologists don't have a good answer for when plate tectonics emerged, and estimates range from 700 million years ago to before 4 billion years ago, when Earth was still in its infancy.
Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than previously thought — and may be a big reason that our planet harbors life.
Plate tectonics allows heat from Earth's interior to escape to the surface, forming continents and other geological features necessary for life to emerge. Accordingly, ...
Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...
Scientists have detected rhythmic pulses of molten rock rising beneath eastern Africa, threatening to pull the continent ...
Plate tectonics in the twenty-first century. Science China Press. Journal Science China Earth Sciences DOI 10.1007/s11430-022-1011-9 ...