Earth's biggest mountains, more than 100 times taller than Mount Everest, have been discovered on the boundary between Africa and the Pacific Ocean, a groundbreaking research, published in the journal ...
The Swarm satellites, launched in 2013, carry sensitive magnetometers that can spot tiny variations in Earth's magnetic field caused by the tidal movements of the ocean. Earth's magnetic field is ...
The ocean, which covers 70% of Earth’s surface, is reaching unprecedented high temperatures – not just at the surface but throughout the upper 2,000 meters (6,561 feet). A new study led by Lijing ...
Earth’s shell is made up of several large tectonic ... eventually creating a basin which could lead to the birth of a new ocean. “We can see that oceanic crust is starting to form, because ...
Combining those methods might highlight whether these mantle “blobs” are from primordial origins, from recycled ocean crust, or from something else entirely. If scientists confirm that more zones like ...
Is there a lost world beneath the Pacific Ocean? “Apparently, such zones in the Earth’s mantle are much more widespread than previously thought,” says Thomas Schouten, first author and doctoral ...