The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...

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I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our ...

Ewing, M., Jardetzky, W., and Press, F., “Elastic Waves in Layered Media”, 198 (McGraw-Hill, 1957).

A study on melting glacial ice sheets revealed a startling positive feedback loop effect with alarming implications for the ...

Peter DeCelles, a geologist at the University of Arizona, likened the ancient plate to a manta ray, with thin wings of oceanic crust flanking a thick central portion of continental crust.

ctplanet provides several functions and example scripts for generating crustal thickness maps of a planet from gravity and topography data, and the calculation of hydrostatic relief along density ...

Scientists have discovered an ocean located beneath the Earth's crust that contains more water than all the surface oceans combined. This vast reservoir of water is situated more than 640 ...

Thanks to their relatively higher proportions of minerals that include silicates, aluminium, and potassium, the chunks of rock we live upon typically rise a touch higher than the submerged chunks of ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper is well on its way to Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, set to arrive in 2030. While its science instruments ...