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Where did Earth’s water come from? AAAS Fellow Karen Meech investigates
The University of Hawaii astronomer’s interest in habitable worlds began at a geothermal field in Iceland, where she and a ...
Study Finds on MSN12h
How North America Is Literally Dripping Away Beneath Our Feet
Explore how North America is changing as its deep cratonic root thins and pieces are dripping into the Earth's mantle.
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How hidden water in Earth’s mantle might spark volcanoes
Scientists have long been puzzled by volcanoes that erupt far from the edges of tectonic plates—known as intraplate volcanoes ...
Water stored in the mantle for millions of years may be linked to continental volcanism
The mantle transition zone (MTZ), which occurs 410–670 kilometers below Earth's surface, may store several oceans' worth of water. This water, which is carried to such depths by subducting tectonic ...
El Adelantado de Segovia13d
Geologists discover a giant ocean hidden beneath the Earth that could change what we know about water on the planet
Like straight out of Julio Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth, scientists from Northwestern University and the ...
Space on MSN2d
This newly found super-Earth might have blown off its own atmosphere
A newly found super-Earth could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets twice the diameter of Earth.
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Scientists discovered huge 'ocean' beneath Earth's surface bigger than all the seas above land
The substance can contain up to 1.5 percent water, and if the ringwoodite under the surface has just one percent water in its ...
Unlocking Alien Worlds: Scientists Develop New Technique To Detect Water on Exoplanets
Researchers are using basalt spectra to study exoplanets and search for water with the James Webb Space Telescope. By studying chemical processes in the Earth's hot mantle, Cornell scientists are ...