An international team has made a significant breakthrough in understanding the tectonic evolution of terrestrial planets.
The models showed that these strange shapes could form when magma rises and weakens the surface in a “squishy” or partly moving lid. Instead of forming clear, global plates like Earth, Venus likely ...
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Two hidden continents above Earth’s core may be relics of a primordial magma ocean
Deep beneath your feet, far beyond where any drill can reach, something strange is hiding. Two continent-sized blobs of rock ...
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Vast deep-Earth structures may tie to life’s origins
Deep inside Earth, far below the crust and oceans, lie vast hidden regions that many geophysicists suspect could have shaped ...
Researchers re-created the conditions deep inside the Cascadia subduction zone and found that fractured rocks can repair ...
A Rutgers researcher and collaborators have linked unusual geological anomalies to Earth’s molten origins and its unique habitability. For many years, researchers have struggled to understand two ...
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