That is where most discussions about the deep interior of the Earth begin. The model correctly predicts the researchers’ new observations about seismic wave travel times through the inner core : The anisotropy, or difference in travel times parallel and…
Geology
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Earth will not be able to support and sustain life forever. As our Sun ages, it is becoming more luminous, meaning that in the future Earth will receive more solar energy. Interestingly, both scenarios produced broadly similar results : oxygen…
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Physics and Astronomy
A New Study Can Be Found At The Journal Lithosophere
by George Cronk April 23, 2020Plate tectonics acts like a planetary thermostat, cycling greenhouse gasses from the deep Earth to the atmosphere. The results appear in the January 22, 2016 issue of the journal Science. All these conditions were fulfilled sometime in early Earth history,…
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Environmental and Earth
A Massive Asteroid Hit Earth 66 Million Years Ago
by Steffen Kohl September 15, 2019Researchers estimate that at least 325 billion metric tons would have been released by the impact. So what could have led to the extinction of dinosaurs also caused global firestorms that ravaged planet Earth. The impact of the giant asteroid…
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Environmental and Earth
The United States Geological Survey Echos Those Predictions
by Steffen Kohl December 27, 2018So Many Earthquakes Happen In The “Wrong” Places. You can add river erosion to the list of geological triggers capable of setting off an earthquake, according to new research: and it could help explain the reason why so many earthquakes…