During serpentinization, awaruite (Ni₃Fe) forms as a secondary mineral when liberated nickel (Ni 2+) and iron (Fe 2+) from the olivine, pyroxene, and chromite minerals react with the abundant hydrogen ...

Long back, a large collection of material masses coalesced and formed the Earth – it was a single crust or plate with no ...

Research unveils a new theory about the origin of the Great Lakes, challenging what we know about their age and formation.

This study out of the University of Houston points to a new theory that as North America began to split away, the Great Lakes ...

Indian scientists have uncovered the possible cause behind the Indian Ocean Geoid Low (IOGL), the lowest geoid anomaly on ...

Earthquakes occur when the rock on one side of a fault slips relative to the other. The fault surface can be vertical, ...

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"These gravity images are revolutionizing our ability to study the least understood continent on Earth—Antarctica." ...

Chinese scientists have reconstructed the uplift history and environmental changes of the Luolong Basin in eastern Xizang autonomous region from 54 million to 43 million years ago, helping better ...

The REE-LITH project was inspired by Gibson and Lebedev's hunch that differences in the properties of Earth's lithosphere - the outermost layers of our planet's structure - might play a guiding role ...

The results confirm the region's potential for natural hydrogen, with the Firstbrook Claims being 60 km and 40 km from the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary (LAB), respectively. The findings are ...