El Adelantado de Segovia6d
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 ...
University of Geneva18h
Observational tango reveals a Super-Earth
An observational tango has thus emerged between the two methods. The transit method generates a large number of “candidates”, ...
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 ...
Knowridge Science Report3d
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 ...
National Geographic news10d
The Permian extinction—when life nearly came to an end
"That's your Permo-Triassic transition zone. Brace yourself ... "Hundreds of cubic miles spread across Siberia—enough to cover the Earth to a depth of about 20 feet (6 meters)." ...