Geology
Astrobiology Geology news on Earth’s mantle, Outer Core Interactions, Ocean Tides, Earth’s composition, Earth’s birth, Early volcanism, Earth’s Evolution, chaotic solar system, Earth’s carbon cycle and much more.
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Nov 29, 2017Geoscientists have traced the age and chemical signatures stored in tiny zircon minerals to examine the recycling of carbon through time.
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Nov 19, 2017For researchers pursuing the primordial history of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere, a new study might sour some "Eureka!" moments.
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Nov 5, 2017Scientists have found evidence showing that three-billion-year old volcanic rock found within the Earth's mantle had a different composition than modern ones. Their discovery may offer new information about the first one billion years of Earth's development and early origins of life.
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May 8, 2017Scientists say the early Earth was likely to be barren, flat and almost entirely under water with a few small islands, following their analysis of tiny mineral grains as old as 4.4 billion years.
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May 6, 2017Experimental findings could guide search for exoplanets that may harbor life.
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May 1, 2017The finding adds evidence to one side of a long-standing debate on how magma from the Earth's mantle cools to form the lower layers of crust.
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Feb 25, 2017A team of scientists has found evidence confirming a critical theory of how the planets in our solar system behave in their orbits around the sun.
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Feb 10, 2017Geochemist Matt Jackson finds the hottest, most buoyant mantle plumes draw from a primordial reservoir deep in the Earth.
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Jan 31, 2017Researchers in Japan say they may be one step closer to solving the mystery at the core of the Earth.
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Dec 16, 2016The oceanic crust produced by the Earth today is significantly thinner than crust made 170 million years ago during the time of the supercontinent Pangea.