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A Sixth Ocean Is Forming as East Africa Splits Apart
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (239+ words) In East Africa, tectonic forces are slowly splitting the continent, creating a future ocean basin....
Geologists Have Some Good News and Bad News About the Terrifying Fault Zone Sitting Right Underneath Seattle
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (790+ words) Smaller quakes from secondary faults'which are not included in national seismic hazard modeling'occur more frequently than previously thought. In the winter of 923, a magnitude 7. 5 earthquake struck the heart of Puget Sound. Shorelines slid into the water, the seafloor rose up,…...
Warming Climate Could Expose Antarctica's Hidden Trove Of Precious Metals
4+ week, 18+ hour ago (341+ words) Melting ice, rebounding land, and rising seas will change what resources are available in Antarctica, a new analysis finds. A warming climate could expose a Pennsylvania-sized chunk of ice-free land in Antarctica by 2300, which could drastically reshape Antarctic geopolitics as…...
New Study Finally Reveals the Mystery of Antarctica's Bleeding Glacier
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (852+ words) A red stain in Antarctica turns out to be a pressure signal, exposing active water movement beneath one of Earth's coldest glaciers. At first glance, it looks like a crime scene'a deep crimson stain spilled across the blinding white ice....
Earth Is Missing a Billion Years of History. We Finally Know Why
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1027+ words) We thought global ice erased a billion years of history but new evidence points to ancient supercontinents. When geologist John Wesley Powell explored the Grand Canyon in 1869, he noticed a glaring omission in the rocks. A layer of rock just…...
New evidence from Scotland reveals how life clung to existence in a world buried under a kilometer of ice
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (687+ words) Our ancestors survived a frozen planet. To an astronaut today, the Earth looks like a vibrant blue marble from space. But 700 million years ago, it would have looked like a blinding white snowball. This seems an unlikely cradle for life,…...
Super Earths Could Protect Life With Massive Oceans of Metallic Magma
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (569+ words) Home " Science " Astronomy New research challenges the idea that an iron core is needed for a magnetic field. Super-Earths are some of the most intriguing planets in our galaxy. They're rocky planets significantly larger than Earth, but also smaller than…...
A Bizarre Gravity Hole Under Antarctica Might Be Why the Continent Froze Over Millions of Years Ago
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (933+ words) Researchers rewound the clock 70 million years to solve the mystery of the Antarctic gravity hole. We tend to think of gravity as being about as constant as it gets. It is the invisible anchor that keeps our feet on the…...
Scientists Say Earth's Core Could Be Hiding the Equivalent of up to 45 Oceans of Water
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (736+ words) Home " Science " Astronomy Deep Earth conditions created in a lab reveal the core is chemically packed with hydrogen. Earth's core has often been described as just a giant ball of iron and nickel. Now, a new study argues that it…...
Scientists Found the Coldest Seawater in History from when Snowball Earth Reached Freezing Temperatures of Minus 15" Celsius
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (391+ words) Iron isotopes show that salty seawater pockets beneath the ice were as cold as "15 C. In'Nature Communications,'researchers reported'the first measured sea temperature from a snowball Earth episode: "15 C7 C. If this figure holds up, it will be the coldest measured sea temperature…...