Even as you read this, Earth's crust is continually being reborn and recycled in a dynamic process that fundamentally shapes our planet. We're not generally aware of all this action because most of it occurs at the seafloor, under a formidable watery shroud, and often in remote regions of...
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When the plates slip, vibrations are produced, and those vibrations travel through Earth's crust as earthquake waves. As the Pacific Plate descends into the mantle, it is heated by friction and the geothermal gradient. At a depth of approximately 100 miles, the rocks have been heated to a ...
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But when we talked about how it actually exists inside earth’s crust, most people think that there are huge, pools of oil sitting around in caverns somewhere under there. That’s really rare. The majority of petroleum is just filling in the tiny pores and cracks in rocks. ...
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Mid-ocean ridges (MORs) are quintessential sites of tectonic extension1–4, at which divergence between lithospheric plates shapes abyssal hills that cover about two-thirds of the Earth’s surface5,6. Here we show that tectonic extension at the ridge axi
Over 400 million years ago, an upwelling of hot rock from Earth's mantle wrenched apart the crust in Mongolia, creating an ocean that survived for 115 million years. The geological history of this ocean could help researchers understand Wilson cycles, or the process b...
ref. 75). This suggestion is consistent with the apparent alignment of the EARS with the eastern side of the African Large-low-shear-wave-velocity provinces (LLSVPs) at the base of the mantle formed by the accumulation of piles of subducted ocean crust over Earth's history76,77,78. Slab...
By feeding this data into a mathematical model similar to those used to find aquifers and oil deposits on Earth, the scientists mapped out Mars' interior to find "the thickness of the crust, the depth of the core, the composition of the core, even a little bit about the temperature within...