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Quiet Chernobyl Triggers Ongoing Mantle Uplift Beneath Aral Sea
The environmental disaster dubbed the "Quiet Chernobyl" still affects Earth's mantle today, with land around the Aral Sea ...
Geologists Decode Earth’s 4.4-Billion-Year-Old “Missing” Crust
Researchers used zircons and AI to reconstruct Earth's ancient crust, revealing possible tectonic processes from the planet's ...
Mantle's hidden role in tungsten formation upends long-held geological theories
Tungsten (W), a hard, heat-resistant, and corrosion-resistant metal, is indispensable to modern high-tech industries—from ...
Chang’e-6 Samples Reveal the Moon’s Farside Is Stranger Than We Thought
China’s Chang’e-6 mission has made lunar history by retrieving the first-ever samples from the Moon’s mysterious farside, ...
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Chang’e-6 unearths volcanic and magnetic mysteries on the Moon’s farside
China's Chang’e-6 mission has delivered the first-ever samples from the Moon’s far side, shedding light on one of planetary ...
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Scientists Uncover a Groundbreaking New Origin for Earth’s First Continents
Researchers from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) have published a study in Science Advances suggesting that deep mantle plumes, not plate tectonics, were responsible for the formation of Earth’s ...
BLOBS on the move: Deep Earth structures may explain giant volcanic explosions
Colossal volcanic eruptions like the kind that may have obliterated the dinosaurs more than 65 million years ago are caused ...