Earths

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Where are Earth’s oldest trees? Far from prying eyes

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Nature, Published online: 22 March 2022; doi:10.1038/d41586-022-00832-xA comprehensive tally identifies 30 trees more than 2 millennia old, almost all growing...

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Microbes and minerals may have set off Earth’s oxygenation: Scientists propose a new mechanism by which oxygen may have first built up in the atmosphere.

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For the first 2 billion years of Earth's history, there was barely any oxygen in the air. While some microbes...

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Large, long-lived, and entirely molten magma chambers once existed in Earth’s crust

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An international group of researchers led by geologists from Wits University in Johannesburg have come up with multiple lines of...

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Weak cubic CaSiO3 perovskite in the Earth’s mantle – Nature

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Irifune, T. & Tsuchiya, T. Mineralogy of the Earth – phase transitions and mineralogy of the lower mantle. In Treatise...

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X-ray view of subducting tectonic plates: High pressure softens the Earth’s crust in subduction zones and can detach it from the plate

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Earth's thin crust softens considerably when it dives down into the Earth attached to a tectonic plate. That is demonstrated...

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Traces of life in the Earth’s deep mantle

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The rapid development of fauna 540 million years ago has permanently changed the Earth -- deep into its lower mantle....

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Ridgecrest shows how earthquakes damage Earth’s crust

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In July 2019, a series of earthquakes including two major shocks of magnitude 6.4 and 7.1 a day apart struck...

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A ‘hot Jupiter’s’ dark side is revealed in detail for first time: The planet’s night side likely hosts iron clouds, titanium rain, and winds that dwarf Earth’s jetstream.

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MIT astronomers have obtained the clearest view yet of the perpetual dark side of an exoplanet that is "tidally locked"...

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Tilting of Earth’s crust governed the flow of ancient megafloods: Study provides new perspective on Washington state’s Channeled Scablands, carved by the Missoula megafloods at the end of the last ice age

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As ice sheets began melting at the end of the last ice age, a series of cataclysmic floods called the...

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Superionic iron alloys and their seismic velocities in Earth’s inner core – Nature

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Birch, F. Elasticity and constitution of the Earth’s interior. J. Geophys. Res. 57, 227–286 (1952).CAS  ADS  Google Scholar  Poirier, J....