In an article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) ...

A team presents new details of an oceanic transform fault at the Gofar fault in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The work reveals unexpected brine deposits beneath the seafloor near the fault, which could ...

"Water abundance in the lunar mantle provides insights into the giant impact formation models for the Moon and plays a ...

Earth's crust today has a surprisingly similar composition to the planet's first outer shell, or "protocrust," new research ...

In the Indian Ocean, there is a place where the laws of gravity seem to falter—a gigantic depression in the Earth’s geoid ...

A recent study challenges previous geological assumptions, revealing that Earth's initial protocrust closely resembled the ...

Geologists have made certain assumptions about how the crust making up our planet's earliest surface formed, but a new study ...

New research has revealed what could have led to the splitting of two major continents, as evidence from the event can still ...

New seismic images of the Lucky Strike slow-spreading segment of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge show thick lower crust at the center ...

The Hadean protocrust formation and early plate tectonics challenged by new study, questioning geological assumptions.

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