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Zealandia: Geologists uncover hidden misplaced continent beneath New Zealand?
Zealandia is giant and separate sufficient to be thought-about an precise continent. Geologists have proposed that a area east of Australia is a continent. It can be the world’s youngest, thinnest, and most submerged continent Scientists uncover hidden misplaced continent … Continue reading
Scientists uncover large M.H million sq. kilometers reservoir of melting carbon underneath Western United States
New analysis describes how scientists have used the world’s largest array of seismic sensors to map a deep-Earth space of melting carbon overlaying M.H million sq. kilometers. Situated underneath the Western US, 350km beneath Earth’s floor, the found melting area … Continue reading
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Researchers affirm the existence of a ‘misplaced continent’ underneath Mauritius
Scientists have confirmed the existence of a ‘misplaced continent’ underneath the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius that was left-over by the break-up of the supercontinent, Gondwana, which began about 200 million years in the past. Geology News — ScienceDaily
Scientists discovered ‘misplaced continent’ underneath Mauritius
The Seven Coloured Earths of Mauritius. Credit: MNStudio/Shutterstock.com Earth nonetheless has some large secrets and techniques. Newly found crystals expelled from volcanic eruptions on the island of Mauritius are billions of years older than the island itself, and are considered … Continue reading
Some islands started in diamond-bearing regions under continents, geochemists say
The raw materials of some volcanic islands are shaped by some of the same processes that form diamonds deep under the continents, according to a new study. The study asserts that material from diamond-forming regions journeys nearly to Earth’s core … Continue reading
Massive ‘lake’ discovered under volcano could unlock why and how volcanoes erupt
A huge magmatic lake has been discovered, 15 kilometers below a dormant volcano in Bolivia, South America. The body of water, which is dissolved into partially molten rock at a temperature of almost 1,000 degrees Celsius, is the equivalent to … Continue reading
Huge lake discovered 15 kilometres under a volcano
The floating lab, Joides Resolution, heads for Indonesian waters Our planet is blue inside and out. A massive reservoir of water has been discovered deep beneath a volcano in the Andes, and Earth’s interior may be dotted with similar wet … Continue reading
Some islands started in diamond-bearing regions under continents
The authors of a new paper believe that raw materials for diamonds and certain unusual oceanic islands come from the same places. From right to left: 1) ocean crust subducts into earth’s mantle deep under a continent; 2) the carbon-rich … Continue reading
itssedimentary: Thin section of dunite under XPL.? Dunite is a…
itssedimentary: Thin section of dunite under XPL.? Dunite is a type of peridotite that contains over 90% olivine and may either be found in ophiolitic complexes or xenoliths in basalt lavas. Note the ?bubble? texture of the vibrant birefringent olivine … Continue reading
Rust under pressure could explain deep Earth anomalies
An artwork depicting the decomposition of FeOOH in lower mantle conditions.The cycle starts from ?-FeOOH (blue dot on the top) to its high-pressure form (brown dot),to FeO2 (center crystal) and hydrogen (cyan bubbles),and finally produce other minerals (bubbles on the … Continue reading