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Lower mantle chemistry breakthrough
The layers of the Earth: the thin upper crust, the viscous upper and lower mantle, the liquid core and the solid inner core. Credit: ESRF Breaking research news from a team of scientists led by...
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Deep earth recycling of the oceanic floor
An artist’s view into the center of the Earth Scientists from the Magma and Volcanoes Laboratory (CNRS/IRD/Université Blaise Pascal) and the European Synchrotron, the ESRF, have recreated the extreme...
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Still hot inside the Moon: Tidal heating in the deepest part of the lunar mantle
Artist’s conception of internal structure of the Moon. An international research team, led by Dr. Yuji Harada from Planetary Science Institute, China University of Geosciences, has found that there is...
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Expedition finds signs of life in Earth’s mantle
Image credit: Berkeley Lab An international team of scientists – recently returned from a 47-day research expedition to the middle of the Atlantic Ocean – have collected an unprecedented sequence of...
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Older than the moon
Lead author Matthew Jackson samples Hawaiian lava with a rock hammer. Credit: WHOI Geodynamics Program The Earth’s mantle — the layer between the crust and the outer core — is home to a primordial soup...
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Lower mantle chemistry breakthrough
The layers of the Earth: the thin upper crust, the viscous upper and lower mantle, the liquid core and the solid inner core. Credit: ESRF Breaking research news from a team of scientists led by...
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Deep earth recycling of the oceanic floor
An artist’s view into the center of the Earth Scientists from the Magma and Volcanoes Laboratory (CNRS/IRD/Université Blaise Pascal) and the European Synchrotron, the ESRF, have recreated the extreme...
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Still hot inside the Moon: Tidal heating in the deepest part of the lunar mantle
Artist’s conception of internal structure of the Moon. An international research team, led by Dr. Yuji Harada from Planetary Science Institute, China University of Geosciences, has found that there is...
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Expedition finds signs of life in Earth's mantle
Image credit: Berkeley Lab An international team of scientists – recently returned from a 47-day research expedition to the middle of the Atlantic Ocean – have collected an unprecedented sequence of...
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Older than the moon
Lead author Matthew Jackson samples Hawaiian lava with a rock hammer. Credit: WHOI Geodynamics Program The Earth’s mantle — the layer between the crust and the outer core — is home to a primordial soup...
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Rare Metals On Mars And Earth Implicate Colossal Impacts
The surface features of the northern and southern hemispheres of Mars are very different. In this topographic map, the northern hemisphere (shown in blue) is mostly smooth lowlands and has experienced...
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Mantle minerals offer clues to deep Earth’s composition
Mantle minerals offer clues to deep Earth’s composition. Credit: Courtesy of MSU Scientists now have a clearer picture of the Earth’s mantle, thanks to Michigan State University research published in...
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