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Scientists Just Found Earth’s Pulse – And It’s Tearing a Continent Apart
Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it ...
Geologists Accidentally Found a Ghost Plume Rising From Earth’s Mantle
Mantle plumes are important geologic processes—they interact with plate tectonics, create rich mineral deposits, and even ...
Geologists Decode Earth’s 4.4-Billion-Year-Old “Missing” Crust
Researchers used zircons and AI to reconstruct Earth's ancient crust, revealing possible tectonic processes from the planet's ...
Oldest living microbes discovered within a 2-billion-year-old rock
Microbes have been discovered alive inside 2-billion-year-old rock, offering a rare window into Earth’s deep past. Found in ...
The oldest rocks on Earth are more than 4 billion years old
Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the ...
New study challenges discovery of Earth’s ‘oldest’ impact crater
The discovery of an ancient meteorite impact crater was recently reported in Western Australia. But not everyone is convinced ...
What Are 'Sinkites and Floatites'? Here's How North Sea’s Mysterious Giant Structures Challenge Earth’s Geological Rules
North Sea's giant sand mounds that perplexed scientists up until now have been found to be younger, denser sands that sank into older, lighter "ooze." ...
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Giant Bodies of Sand Discovered Beneath the North Sea
Giant bodies of sand found under the North Sea flip the rules of geology and may reshape how experts approach underground ...
Scientists Found a Place Where the Earth’s Layers Are Upside Down
Normally, younger rocks are deposited above older ones, forming predictable geologic layers. In the North Sea, this process ...
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Unearthing Earth's Origins: The Hadean Mystique in Québec's Ancient Rocks
The Hadean Eon, Earth's first geological period, remains shrouded in mystery due to scarce rock records. However, Québec's ...
BLOBS on the move: Deep Earth structures may explain giant volcanic explosions
Colossal volcanic eruptions like the kind that may have obliterated the dinosaurs more than 65 million years ago are caused ...
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Discovered on Earth 14,000 years later ― NASA spots white, glowing skull in this desert
From the ongoing series of remarkable discoveries on Earth… NASA recently identified a peculiar white, glowing formation deep within one of the world’s most ...