Scripps Oceanography researcher’s assertion bolstered by series of new studies. New research lends credence to an unorthodox retelling of the story of early Earth first…
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Photo of eruption at Mount Redoubt in Alaska in 2009. Credit: Game McGimsey, USGS New research methods may lead to earlier predictions of volcanic eruptions.…
The Holuhraun lava eruption in 2014-2015. Credit: Dr Evgenia Ilyinskaya Respiratory disease increased markedly following one of Iceland’s largest volcanic eruptions, a new study has…
An artist’s rendering of Earth during the Archean eon, with a hazy atmosphere, few landmasses and a global ocean. Credit: Alec Brenner, Harvard University Earth’s…
This cartoon shows a subducting oceanic plate traveling like a conveyor belt from the surface down to the lower mantle. The white arrows show the…
A graphical summary of Earth’s supercontinents/supercratons. Credit: Modified from D. A. D. Evans, Z. X. Li and J. B. Murphy, Geological Society, London, Special Publications,…
Curie Subsea Cable Route from Equinix LA4 International Business Exchange in Los Angeles to Chile. Credit: Equinix Using “Curie” — Google’s 10,000-kilometer-long underwater fiber-optic cable…
An illustration showing how a combination of static high-pressure synthesis techniques and dynamic methods enabled the researchers to probe the magnesium silicate bridgmanite, believed to…
A transmitted light view through a 200-micron section of a peridotite sample, showing the three main minerals — olivine (clear-green), orthopyroxene (grey-green) and garnet (pink).…
CO2 Dip May Have Aided Herbivores on a 6,500-Mile Trek A new paper refines estimates of when herbivorous dinosaurs must have traversed North America on…
A humpback whale. The songs of fin whales can be used for seismic imaging of the oceanic crust, providing scientists a novel alternative to conventional…
A randomly selected 3,000-year segment of the physics-based simulated catalog of earthquakes in California, created on Frontera. Credit: Kevin Milner, University of Southern California Supercomputer-powered…
39 Ocean Bottom Seismometers were deployed on the ocean floor across the Mid-Atlantic Ridge as part of the PI-LAB experiment. Credit: University of Southampton Geological…
A 2019 eruption of Steamboat Geyser in the Norris Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park. The geyser’s first documented activity was in 1878, and it…
Overview of the study area and the schematic illustration of interaction of fault motion and the seafloor subsidence. Credit: University of Tsukuba University of Tsukuba…
A seismic station on the Greenland Ice Sheet installed by authors. Snow accumulation in one year is ~1.5 m, and the solar panels are buried…
Map of the Cascadia subduction zone. Megathrust earthquakes and subsequent tsunamis that originate in subduction zones like Cascadia — Vancouver Island, Canada, to northern California…
Australia’s east coast is littered with the remnants of hundreds of volcanoes — the most recent just a few thousand years old — and scientists…
Seismic imaging in northeastern China revealed both the top (X1) and bottom (X2) boundaries of a tectonic plate (blue) that formerly sat at bottom of…
Lava flowing across black rocks. International research led by geologists from Curtin University has found that a volcanic province in the Indian Ocean was the…