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something extraordinary to the surface: a material from Earth’s birth 4.4 billion years ago
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (1112+ words) volcano near Mayotte has carried a chemical memory of Earth’s birth all the way to the seafloor. And it’s an...the planet’s first 100 million years, when much of Earth may have been a giant ocean of molten rock. In…...
Volcanoes deliver rock older than the continents
3+ week, 5+ day ago (782+ words) signatures that point to a source near the boundary with Earth's core, about 1,800 miles down. The mantle holds roughly 84 percent of Earth’s volume. Nobody has ever seen a piece of it sitting...is helium. Helium-3 was never manufactured…...
Ancient iron reveals how mountains and plants reshaped Earth
1+ week, 2+ day ago (703+ words) building and the spread of land plants transformed Earth's iron cycle over the past 1.2 billion years....have relied on ancient iron deposits to trace how Earth’s oceans and atmosphere first filled with oxygen....Hamburg in Germany and ETH…...
California’s famous alien landscape seen from space
4+ day, 13+ hour ago (654+ words) jagged appearance. Today’s Image of the Day from NASA Earth Observatory reveals this famous landscape from...different perspective – hundreds of miles above Earth. The image was captured by the Operational Land...
324-million-year-old insect fossil reveals early life on Earth roamed between water and land
5+ day, 7+ hour ago (956+ words) their bodies gradually changed over time. Life on Earth changed greatly when animals began moving from...
A massive dust storm erupts in West Africa as the seasons change
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (697+ words) Atlantic Ocean. Today’s Image of the Day from NASA Earth Observatory shows a massive cloud of dust sweeping...Africa is the largest source of atmospheric dust on Earth. The continent has nearly ideal conditions for...
The forces that trigger earthquakes
3+ week, 5+ day ago (1008+ words) Plate tectonics loads a fault over centuries, but something else usually decides the moment it finally breaks. Research on California seismicity shows that groundwater cycles, stress from neighboring ruptures, and fluid injected underground can all nudge a fault past its…...
Asteroid dust may explain what really killed the dinosaurs
1+ week, 6+ day ago (998+ words) Sixty-six million years ago, a massive asteroid struck Earth and helped wipe out the non-avian dinosaurs. Scientists...simulation, it was about 8 miles across and struck Earth at roughly 45,000 miles per hour. The impact turned...table salt. The beads flew out…...
Deep Atlantic life depends on oxygen from one surprising place
3+ week, 3+ day ago (779+ words) comes from Una Miller, an assistant professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at Cornell University,...
Scientists discovered a hidden underground forest 2,000 feet deep in China, and it’s teeming with rare species never seen before
1+ week, 3+ day ago (773+ words) figure that earns it the title of deepest sinkhole on Earth. Its volume comes to roughly 4.2 billion cubic...